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Clinton's 
Budget  Guru 

Art  Class 
Field  Trip 

Reporting  a 
Massacre 


January/February  1998 


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Under  the  Elms    13 

The  campus  debates  race. . .  two 
ambassadors  debate  Vietnam  . . . 
how  to  stay  young  forever. . . 
a  cavalcade  of  Olympians  comes 
home . .  .  quitting  smoking 
through  exercise . . .  and  more. 


DEPARTMENTS 

Here  &  Now 

2 

Carrying  the  Mail 

4 

Sports 

20 

Water  Polo's  Got  it  All 

Studentside 

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S200I 

By  Suzanne  Clark  'gg 

In  Class 

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The  Other  Seniors 

By  Chad  Gaits 

Books 

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Mutual  Contempt  by  [effShesol 

'91 

Reviewed  by  Stephen  Fox  '71  Ph.D. 

Black  Dog  of  Fate  by  Peter  Bala 

kian 

"So  Ph.D. 

Ret/iewed  by  Barbara  Bejoian  '$4 

A.M. 

The  Classes 

58 

Obituaries 

77 

Finally.  . . 

NO 

Wrong  Number 

Byjocelyn  Hale  '85 

Mystery  in  Stone  and  Sand  30 

The  Jordanian  desert  reveals  its  secrets  to  a  Brown  archaeologist  and 
her  students.  Photographs  by  John  Foraste.  Text  by  Norman  Boucher. 


Filling  the  Canvas 


38 


A  group  of  aspiring  artists  descends  upon  New  York  to  learn  why 
they  should  -  or  shouldn't  -join  the  art  world.  By  Torri  Still 


Betrayal 


44 


In  1 90s,  David  Rohde  '90  won  a  Pulitzer  Prize  for  his  reporting 
in  Bosnia.  Now  he's  a  rookie  reporter  for  the  NewYork  Times. 
By  Norman  Boucher 


Pagan's  Progress 


50 


Brown's  Marcus  Aurelius  celebrates  ninety  uneventful  years.  The 
history  or  his  Roman  twin  is  more  convoluted.  By  Brian  Floca  \)i 


The  Odyssey 


52 


An  unlikely  pairing  of  professor  and  student  reinvents  a  course 
and  may  help  to  revitalize  a  neighborhood.  By  Pamela  Petro  '82 


Portrait:  Clinton's  Budgeteer  56 

Economist  Janet  Yellen  '67  has  an  office  111  the  White  House  and 
the  car  of  the  President.  By  Alexis  Simendinger 


(  ovi  r:  Dakhilallah  Qublan,  a  [ordanian  worker, 
pauses  at  the  Brown  excavation  at  Petra. 
Photograph  by  John  Foraste 


Volume  98  •  Number  3 
January/February  1998 


Here  &  Now 


Old  Enough 

As  I  read  sociology  pro- 
fessor Ann  Dill's  de- 
scription of  her  great-aunt  (see 
In  Class,  page  24),  I  laughed  out 
loud.  The  remarkable  old 
woman  she  described  —  "sharp 
as  a  tack,"  in  her  nineties  con- 
tinuing to  drink,  smoke,  and 
manage  a  cattle  ranch  in  the 
Midwest  -  reminded  me  in 
spirit,  if  not  in  the  particulars,  of 
my  own  great-aunt. 

An  Isek  Dineson  character 
once  said,  "Women,  when  they 
are  old  enough  to  have  done 
with  the  business  of  being 
women,  and  can  let  loose  then- 
strength,  must  be  the  most  pow- 
erful creatures  in  the  world."  On  both 
sides  of  my  family,  women  have  lived  to 
very  old  ages,  and  several  of  them  have 
been  powerful  forces  indeed.  One  of 
these  was  my  great-aunt  Esther.  Widowed 
as  a  young  woman,  she  moved  back  into 
the  antique  family  homestead  in  a  sleepy 
Connecticut  hill  town  and  worked  in  a 
bank  while  raising  two  children. 

In  retirement,  her  domestic  obliga- 
tions discharged,  Esther  came  into  her 
own.  She  was  an  enthusiastic  traveler,  dri- 
ving to  Florida  each  fall  in  her  ancient 
Mercedes  and  vacationing  in  Europe  and 
the  Canary  Islands.  Blunt  and  funny  in 
a  dry,  Yankee  way,  she  was  a  flirt  to  the 
end,  playing  cards  and  going  out  dancing 
until  her  legs  failed  her.  Relatives  were 
bemused  by  Esther's  string  of  boyfriends 
-  balding  Romeos  with  hearing  aids, 
devoted  as  dogs,  some  of  whom  she  trav- 
eled and  even  cohabited  with  as  late  as 
her  eighties.  As  .1  young  woman,  1  was 
impressed:  Aunt  Esther  was  cool! 

I  last  saw  Esther  when  she  was  in  her 
nineties,  a  few  years  before  she  died.  She 
came  to  Rhode  Island  on  a  balmy  June 
day  and  presided  over  our  backyard  picnic 
table  in  enormous  sunglasses  and  a  nun- 
bus  ot  white  hair,  Still  droll  and  charming 
ami,  yes,  sharp  as  a  tack.  She  reminded 
something  Carolyn  Heilbrun  once 


VIVItNNt   FLI-SHER 


wrote:  "It  is  perhaps  only  in  old  age,  cer- 
tainly past  fifty,  that  women  can  stop 
being  female  impersonators. 

Age  can  free  us  to  behave  as  we  wish. 
This  freedom  is  at  once  tantalizing  and 
frightening;  many  women  are  not  accus- 
tomed to  envisioning  themselves  as 
strong,  unconventional,  or  (in  the  best 
sense)  selfish.  Yet  I  think  we  are  intrigued 
by  and  attracted  to  vital,  idiosyncratic 
elderly  women  such  as  Ann  Dill's  great- 
aunt,  or  mine.  From  them  we  learn  -  as 
Dill's  students  are  learning  in  her  course, 
Aging  and  the  Quality  of  Life  -  that  old 
age  isn't  all  about  rocking  chairs  and 
grandchildren,  charming  as  both  of  those 
institutions  may  be.  We  become  powerful 
creatures  when  we  realize  that,  given  a 
modicum  of  health  and  financial  security, 
old  age  can  be  as  replete  with  challenges 
and  brio  as  we  make  it. 


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Anne  Hinman  DiFfiLY  '73 
Editor 


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Carrying  the  Mail 


Profile  in  Courage 

Doug  Ulman's  courage  in  his  tight  against 
cancer  ("Going  for  the  Goal,"  September/ 
October)  is  an  example  of  cancer  survivors 
turning  potential  tragedy  into  a  meaningful 
outcome. 

Despite  the  current  ease  with  which 
we  all  say  the  word  cancer,  in  many  peo- 
ple's minds  it  remains  a  whispered  word. 
Doug's  organization  will  prove  to  be  a 
tremendous  support  for  young  men  and 
women  who  survive  cancer  and  feel  un- 
able to  tell  the  world.  Indeed,  it  was  Peter 
Findlay  '85  who  enlightened  many  in 
my  generation  at  Brown  with  his  group 
independent  study  project,  Understanding 
Cancer.  The  course  grew  in  one  semes- 
ter from  about  fifteen  students  to  180. 
Although  he  died  of  leukemia  in  1983, 
Peter  still  inspires  many  of  us,  as  I'm  sure 
Doug's  spirit  and  energy  do  now. 

As  a  pediatric  oncologist,  I  would  also 
like  to  use  Doug's  example  to  remind 
readers  that  early  detection  can  lead  to 
the  cure  of  many  cancers  with  minimal 
treatment  and  side  effects. The  value 


TO     OUR     READERS 

Letters  are  always  welcome,  and  we  try  to 
print  all  we  receive.  Preference  will  begiven  to 
those  that  address  thi  content  oj  the  magazine. 
Please  limit  letters  to  300  words.  We  reserve 
the  right  to  edit  for  style,  clarity,  ami  length. 


of  monthly  breast  self-exams  for  women 
and  monthly  testicular  self-exams  for 
men  cannot  be  overestimated.  If  some- 
thing appears  unusual,  have  it  examined 
by  a  physician.  Letting  masses  or  moles 
wait  too  long  can  be  deadly. 

Congratulations  to  Doug  Ulman  and 
all  survivors  whose  experience  and  example 
benefit  both  those  surviving  cancer  and 
the  rest  of  us. 

Mark  P.  Atlas  '83 

Stony  Brook,  N.Y 
Ttie  writer  is  director  of  pediatric  stem-cell 
transplantation  and  assistant  professor  of  pedi- 
atrics at  the  Children's  Medical  Center  at 
Stony  Brook  (New  York).  -  Editor 


The  Internet's  Potential 

Thank  you  for  covering  the  Internet 
phenomenon  ("Plug-In  Utopias,"  Sep- 
tember/October). I  use  and  write  about 
technology  as  the  vice  president  of  online 
research  and  development  for  a  health- 
care publishing  company  m  Santa  Barbara, 
California.  I'm  also  the  executive  editor 
ot  Medicine  on  the  Net,  a  monthly  print 
publication  that  helps  health-care  practi- 
tioners sort  out  the  Internet. 

Despite  the  wonderful  aspects  of  the 
Net  (I'm  able  to  telecommute  full-time 
from  my  home  in  upstate  New  York,  for 
example),  I  warn  my  readers  and  audiences 
that  the  Internet  is  not  a  panacea.  In  tele- 
vision ternunology,  the  Net  is  about  10 
percent  Masterpiece  Tlieater  and  90  percent 
Geraldo  Rivera. 

However,  it  is  also  a  useful  way  of 
sharing  information.  I  was  disappointed 
that  author  David  Shenk  '88  failed  to 
address  the  potential  of  intranets  (internal 
networks  that  use  Internet  technology  to 
share  information)  to  filter  computer-based 
knowledge  in  schools.  Imagine  taking  the 
ease  of  the  Internet  interface  and  applying 
it  to  very  limited  networks,  either  within 
one  school  or  in  linking  several  schools  in 
a  region.  With  intranets,  teachers  can  con- 
tinue to  do  what  they  do  well  -  filter 
information  -  while  taking  advantage  of 
the  best  aspects  ot  Internet  technology. 

No  technology  is  a  magic  bullet,  and 
if  we  forget  our  poetry  in  the  pursuit  ot 
techno-utopia,  that  is  a  sad  development 
indeed.  It  is  up  to  parents  and  educators 
to  approach  the  Net  as  a  tool,  nothing 


more.  The  Internet  and  intranets  will  be 
as  good  or  as  bad  as  the  people  who  teach 
others  how  to  use  them. 

Jennifer  Wayne-Doppke  '<!>>' 

Port  Byron,  N.Y. 

jenwayne@tds.  net 


A  Tougaloo  Family 

Here  is  another  Tougaloo-Brown  con- 
nection ("The  Tougaloo  Connection," 
September/October). The  Mansion  was 
the  birthplace  in  1876  of  my  mother-in- 
law,  Marion  Darling  Wentworth.  Her 
father,  Leander  Darling,  was  sent  by  the 
American  Missionary  Society  to  be 
Tougaloo's  second  (I  think)  president. We 
still  have  letters  written  to  him  by  his 
former  students  after  he  returned  north. 
Marion  was  also  the  grandmother  of 
Frances  Marion  Wentworth  '74. 

Lillian  Hicock  Wentworth  '33 

Braintree,  Mass. 

lwentworth@thaycr.org 


The  Levy  File,  Amended 

Aaron  KurilofT's  otherwise  excellent  pro- 
file of  me  ("The  Levy  File,"  September/ 
October)  took  my  wife.Valerie  -  to  whom 
I've  been  married  forty-one  years  -  by 
surprise  when  she  read  about  "Levy  and 
his  wife,  Natalie"  deciding  to  move  to 
Prague  in  the  1960s.  I've  assured  her  that 
I  wasn't  leading  a  double  life,  but  I'd  like 
old  friends  to  know  that  I  was  then  and 
still  am  married  to  the  former  Valerie 
Wladaver  (NYU  '53,  master's  from  Mid- 
dlebury  '55),  and  I  have  never  taken 
responsibility  for  "Natalie's"  bed  and  board. 

It  also  would  have  been  nice  if  Aaron 
had  mentioned  that  the  action  that  trig- 
gered most  of  the  events  described  or 
alluded  to  was  the  Soviet-led  invasion  of 
Czechoslovakia  in  1968. 

I  should  add  that  Rowboat  to  Prague, 
the  book  that  cost  my  wife,  daughters, 
and  me  a  home  as  well  as  twenty  years' 
involuntary  absence  from  Prague,  is  still 
in  print  from  Second  Chance  Press.  Sag 
Harbor,  New  York. 

Alan  Lcry  V> 

Prague,  Czech  Republic 

alevy@praguepost.cz 


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Bill  Jordy's  Amazing  Gifts 

I  read  with  sadness  that  William  Jordy, 
professor  emeritus  of  art  history,  passed  on 
in  early  August  (Obituaries,  September/ 
October).  I'm  sure  that  I  am  not  alone  in 
saying  that  we  have  lost  a  great  scholar, 
an  inspiring  educator,  and  a  gentle  spirit. 

The  single  smartest  thing  I  did  at 
Brown  was  to  sign  up  for  Jordy's  modern 
architecture  course  as  a  freshman.  He 
opened  up  a  world  to  me  with  his  lucid, 
marvelously  crafted  lectures.  I  took  every 
course  he  offered,  along  with  a  gaggle 
of  fellow  "Jordy  groupies."  He  continu- 
ally enhanced  the  gift  he  first  gave  us:  the 
love  of  architecture  and  history.  Beyond 
the  lecture  hall,  Jordy  was  a  kind,  accessi- 
ble mentor  who  took  great  interest  in  the 
aspirations  of  his  students. 

In  the  last  lecture  ot  each  term, Jordy 
would  deliver  his  magnum  opus.  It  was 
not  just  an  overview  of  the  territory 
we'd  covered  in  the  course,  but  a  wonder- 
ful composition  in  which  he  reintroduced 
major  themes,  interwove  new  strains  of 
thought,  and  built  toward  a  great  finale. 
As  Jordy  approached  the  lecture's  end,  he 
would  step  off  the  podium  and,  still  speak- 
ing, move  up  the  aisle,  mesmerizing  us 
until,  with  a  final  sentence,  he  would  slip 
out  the  door.  And  he  left  us  there  on  our 
feet,  applauding  him  and  his  amazing  gifts. 

Barbara  Liiskey  I  Veinreich  '80 

New  York  City 

weinreic@pipeline.com 


Invasive  Species 

While  I  admire  Geri  Carr  Nelson's  ('51) 
enthusiasm  for  gardening  and  her  appreci- 
ation of  the  beauty  ot  wildflowers  ("Those 
Glorious  Natives,"  Mail,  September/Octo- 
ber), her  definition  of  native  plants  con- 
cerns me.  She  considers  native  plants  to 
be  "those  which  do  well  here  untended." 

Under  this  definition,  a  number  of 
attractive  wild  plants  that  are  wreaking 
havoc  on  ecosystems  all  over  the  country 
would  be  considered  native.  Purple  loose- 
strife is  a  beautiful  flower  that  decimates 
the  New  England  wetland  areas  it  invades, 
creating  a  dense  monoculture  that  other 
plants  cannot  grow  in  and  that  animals 
cannot  feed  on.  Melaleuca  is  slowly  de- 
stroying the  Florida  Everglades  by  forming 
dense  tangles  that  literally  suck  produc- 
tive swamplands  dry,  and  here  in  California 
the  introduced  eucalyptus  trees  are  doing 
just  a  bit  too  well  on  their  own,  crowding 
out  truly  native  plants. 

I  think  there  is  a  fine  line  between 


plants  that  "do  well  untended"  and  an 
invasive  exotic  species  that  can  seriously 
impair  an  entire  ecosystem.  We  do  not 
know  yet  which  plants  will  simply  survive 
in  a  new  place  and  which  will  dominate. 
Until  we  do,  it  would  behoove  us  to 
plant  our  gardens  with  plants  that  truly 
belong  to  our  area  and  to  be  very  careful 
about  how  we  define  "native  plants." 

Brian  R.  Mitchell  'gj 

Berkeley,  Calif. 

bmitchel@nature.berkeley.edu 


Brown  Appreciation 

Reflecting  on  Brown  five  years  out,  I 
am  surprised  to  find  my  undergraduate 
experience  still  strongly  at  the  center  of 
my  self-definition.  I  have  run  through 
a  couple  of  careers  and  helped  bring  two 
small  souls  into  the  world,  but  still  it  is 
echoes  of  my  research  that  make  me  feel 
most  alive.  It  is  the  poetry  I  learned,  the 
songs  I  sang  in  choir,  the  debates  that 
raged  between  me  and  a  tattered  wall  of 
books  -  dreams  on  loan  from  the  Rock  - 
that  spur  my  imagination. 

You  don't  really  appreciate  Brown 
until  you  find  that  the  adult  world  you 
were  preparing  tor  is  full  ot  redundancy 
and  disappointing  heroes.  At  Brown, 
purity  ot  purpose  is  as  close  as  your  next 
lecture.  Thanks  for  the  basis  for  a  lifetime 
of  self-learning. 

Ken  Murphy  'g2 

Elizabeth,  N.J. 


Excessive  Correctness 

Of  the  letters  on  the  Adam  Lack  [sexual 
misconduct]  case  printed  by  the  BAM 
last  year,  one  is  as  significant  as  it  is  easily 
overlooked:  a  six-line  expression  ot  dis- 
gust over  Brown's  prosecution  of  Lack, 
concluding:  "I  am  enraged  and  ashamed 
that  I  graduated  from  Brown"  ("20/20 
Vision,"  Mail,  May).  I  join  in  the  senti- 
ment, especially  in  light  ot  the  praises  lav- 
ished upon  our  past  president,  Vartan 
Gregorian,  in  the  July  BAM. 

Certainly  the  budget  is  sound  and  the 
endowment  growing. Yet  on  Gregorian's 
watch,  Brown  succumbed  to  every  excess 
of  political  correctness,  retaining,  upon 
his  departure,  only  a  shadow  of  its  former 
sense  and  decency.  How  ironic  of  the 
BAM  to  note  -  given  Gregorian's  silence 
on  the  Lack  case  -  that  in  matters  "regard- 
ing controversial,  high-profile  situations" 
the  "beliefs  and  opinions  [of  the  president] 
must  inform  every  public  statement  and 


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news  release  issued"  ("Mission  Accom- 
plished," July).  How  ironic  of  you,  on 
the  facing  page,  to  highlight  a  quote  from 
former  Professor  Martha  Nussbaum  to 
the  effect  that  "when  social  injustice  oc- 
curred on  campus,  [Gregorian]  walked 
out  and  addressed  the  students  personally." 

While  Gregorian  remained  silent,  a 
ruined  Adam  Lack  returned  to  Iowa  and  to 
heartbroken  parents.  Incoming  President 
Gordon  Gee,  as  his  first  official  act,  should 
pardon  and  absolve  Adam  Lack  of  all 
charges  and  punishments,  apologize  to  him 
publicly,  punish  those  who  participated  in 
his  debacle,  and  provide  him  with  what- 
ever support  he  requires,  including  physical 
protection  to  resume  a  normal  life  at 
Brown.  President  Gee  should,  further,  dis- 
band the  University  Disciplinary  Council, 
reclaiming  at  least  one  sector  of  the  acad- 
emic universe  from  the  wasteland  (and 
abnegation  of  administrative  responsibility) 
that  is  children  judging  children.  President 
Gee  should  also  rid  his  administration 
of  the  ideologues  and  facilitators  without 
whose  participation  the  Lack  tragedy 
would  itself  have  been  impossible. 

Gee,  in  sum,  should  send  forth  the  word 
that  political  correctness  is  dead  at  Brown. 
In  so  doing,  he  would  provide  a  sorely 
needed  example  throughout  academe. 

Jeffrey  M.  Dublin  '71 

New  York  City 

Excessive  Extremism 

Jeffrey  Duban  is  continuing  his  nasty  attacks 
on  President  Gregorian  and  Brown  Uni- 
versity, this  time  in  the  Providence  Journal- 
Bulletin  and  the  Brown  Daily  Herald  [which 
printed  letters  similar  to  the  one  above]. 
It  embarrasses  me  as  a  fellow  alumnus  and 
retired  faculty  member  to  read  such 
totally  undeserved  and  insulting  garbage. 
It  is  clear  that  Mr.  Duban  either  has  not 
studied  the  published  information  on 
the  Adam  Lack  case  or  is  committed  to  a 
philosophy  in  which  male  students  are 
free  to  engage  in  sexual  misconduct  with- 
out hindrance  or  consequence. 

The  administrators  whom  Mr.  Duban 
seeks  to  have  fired  are  particularly  fine 
individuals,  dedicated  to  the  well-being 
of  students  and  willing  to  make  the  major 
effort  -  and  incur  the  very  real  risks  - 
involved  in  administering  and  improving 
procedures  for  handling  cases  of  sexual 
assault  and  other  alleged  offenses.  Acade- 
mic institutions  across  the  country  are 
struggling  with  these  complex  problems. 
We  need  to  be  patient  and  to  applaud  the 
administrators,  faculty,  and  students  in- 


volved in  refining  the  disciplinary  system, 
and  refrain  from  injecting  our  own  polit- 
ical ideologies  into  their  attempts  to 
make  progress.  Mr.  Duban's  approach  is 
that  of  the  mean-spirited  ideologue  who 
cares  nothing  about  being  constructive 
but  wishes  only  to  demean  those  who 
disagree  with  his  views. 

Philip  J.  Bray  '48 

Providence 
The  writer  is  Hazard  Professor  oj  Physics, 
Emeritus.  -  Editor 


Stanford  Alumna  Reacts 

Vartan  Gregorian  is  quoted  as  saying, 
"Brown  should  never  have  an  inferiority 
complex  with  our  sister  institutions.  To 
me,  Brown  is  great."  ("Mission  Accom- 
plished," July).  On  the  other  hand,  Scott 
Upton  '98  indicates  ("The  Transfer," 
Studentside,  September/October)  that 
Brown  can  only  be  great  at  the  expense  of 
its  sister  institutions. The  latter  is  untrue, 
and  it  is  also  an  unflattering  misrepresen- 
tation of  what  Brown  truly  is. 

I  fail  to  understand  both  Mr.  Upton's 
and  the  B.-lAfs  apparent  insecurity  about 
Chelsea  Clinton's  choice  of  Stanford  tor 
her  college  experience  and  their  implica- 
tion that  Ms.  Clinton's  choice  reflects 
poorly  on  Brown.  Furthermore,  I  am 
disheartened  by  Mr.  Upton's  need  to  mis- 
represent academics  at  Stanford  in  his 
desire  to  reinforce  Brown's  merits. 

Many  students  do  have  wonderfully 
rewarding  experiences  at  Stanford.  Dur- 
ing my  five  years  at  Stanford,  I  filled  my 
schedule  with  seminars  and  forged  close 
relationships  with  my  professors,  both 
through  classes  and  through  the  residential 
system.  I  encountered  many  "teachers 
who  took  great  interest  in  what  I  was 
learning"  and  who  "learned  our  names." 
My  experiences  at  Stanford  do  not  in  any 
way  dimmish  the  equally  rewarding  expe- 
riences that  my  husband  (Brad  D.  Simons 
'85,  '91  Ph.D.,  '92  M.D)  had  at  Brown. 

This  fall  thousands  of  college  freshmen 
began  their  postsecondary  educations. 
Many  find  themselves  in  stimulating  and 
rewarding  environments  other  than  Brown. 
Brown  is  great,  and  so  are  many  other 
universities  in  America. 

Julie  A.M.  Simons 

Key  Biscavne,  Fla. 


Author  Amends  Review 

Most  authors  do  not  comment  on  reviews 
of  their  books  that  are  as  generous  111 


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their  praise  as  yours  was  of  my  book  Ris- 
ingTide  ("Of  Time  and  the  River,"  Books, 
September/October).  In  this  case,  how- 
ever, and  at  the  risk  ot  seeming  to  want  to 
write  the  review  myself,  I  think  it's  appro- 
priate tor  me  to  say  something. 

The  review  discussed  only  the  writing 
and  the  narrative,  and  entirely  omitted 
any  mention  of  how  this  great  natural  dis- 
aster (the  flood  inundated  the  homes  of 
roughly  o.S  percent  of  the  nation's  popu- 
lation, not  the  S  percent  stated  in  the 
review)  made  any  difference  in  American 
history.  In  fact,  the  flood  left  a  significant 
legacy  on  national  politics,  demographics, 
race  relations,  and  the  environment. 

First,  it  created  the  presidential  candi- 
dacy  of  Herbert  Hoover,  who  was  then 
secretary  ot  commerce  and  put  in  charge 
of  feeding  and  rehabilitating  700,000 
refugees.  Hoover  used  the  media,  which 
put  the  flood  in  headlines  for  weeks,  to 
leapfrog  over  his  competitors. 

Second,  paradoxically,  even  while  cre- 
ating Hoover's  candidacy,  the  flood  helped 
prepare  the  way  for  the  New  Deal  by 
redefining  the  relationship  of  the  federal 
government  with  both  states  and  individual 
citizens. 

Third,  the  Great  Mississippi  Flood  cre- 
ated a  surge  of  migration  of  African  Amer- 
icans out  of  the  South.  This  migration 
began  in  earnest  during  and  immediately 
after  World  War  I  but  nearly  doubled  in  the 
1920s  before  tailing  precipitously  in  the 
1930s.  A  major  factor  in  this  increase  was 
the  flood. 

Fourth,  the  treatment  of  refugees  and 
Hoover's  behavior  led  to  a  breach  between 
national  black  political  leaders  and  the 
Republican  Party,  helping  to  prepare  the 
shift  of  black  voters  to  the  Democrats. 

Fifth,  the  decision  by  New  Orleans 
leaders  to  dynamite  the  levee  and  flood 
their  rural  neighbors  combined  with  the 
economic  devastation  of  central  Louisiana 
to  bring  about  the  economic  and  politi- 
cal decline  of  the  city.  The  action  by  New 
Orleans  also  helped  elect  Huey  Long  gov- 
ernor and,  even  more,  helped  him  escape 
the  effort  to  impeach  him  soon  after  he 
became  governor. 

Sixth,  the  flood  caused  a  180-degree  re- 
versal in  engineering  policies  toward  rivers. 
We  arc  still  living  with  these  policies  today. 

These  are  not  insignificant  theses. 
None  was  even  mentioned  in  the  review. 
While  I  appreciate  your  reviewer's  kind 
words  about  the  quality  of  the  writing, 
I  believe  some  discussion  of  the  substance 
of  the  book  was  warranted. 
John  M.  Barry.  '68 

Washington,  DC. 


Future  Alumni 

The  photographs  and  reports  from  the 
45th  reunion  in  the  September/October 
issue  were  particularly  interesting.  I  had 
been  sorting  through  an  old  box  of  pho- 
tos, and  I  found  one  that  amused  me  (see 
above).  It  was  taken  in  1932  at  Gaspee 
Point  in  Warwick,  and  it  is  of  my  mother, 
myselt  (lett),  and  a  neighbor,  Selma  Cokely 
(right). 

Selma  and  I  were  friends  as  we  grew 
up,  and  ultimately  we  graduated  together 
in  1952.  Possibly  this  is  the  earliest  photo- 
graph of  two  '52  classmates  extant,  ex- 
cluding, of  course,  siblings. 

Miles  Cunat's  letter  notwithstanding, 
some  ot  us  old  coots  still  do  read  the  BAM. 

Edward  II.'  Powell  '52 

Phoenix 


Alumni  Respond  to  Cunat 

Miles  E.  Cunat  '52  ("Low- Visibility  Class- 
note,"  Mail,  September/October)  laments 
the  fact  that  he  was  not  inundated  with 
messages  from  his  600-plus  classmates  in 
response  to  an  item  about  him  in  the 
December  1996  BAM.  Only  three  class- 
mates contacted  him. 

Cunat's  "irrefutable  conclusion"  was 
that  "huge  numbers  of  older  alumni  are 
not  reading  the  BAM." 

Another  conclusion  might  be  that 
597-plus  classmates  read  the  article  but  did 
not  deign  to  write,  call,  or  tax  Mr.  Cunat, 
despite  his  "highly  visible"  position  while 
at  Brown. 

Jim  Fernald  '33 

Sunset  Beach,  N.C. 

I  remember  Miles  well,  highly  visible  per- 
haps due  to  his  having  been  somewhat 
tall,  with  wire-rim  glasses  -  an  okay  guy. 


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well-spoken  with  a  Midwest  intonation, 
friendly.  So  were  most  of  us. 

Let's  not  delude  ourselves  -  at  our  age, 
many  things  other  than  the  mention  of  a 
long-forgotten  acquaintance  compete  tor 
our  attention  and  interest. There's  no  need 
for  me  to  respond  to  the  mention  of  a 
classmate.  Admittedly,  I  was  pleased  to  read 
that  he  is  a  survivor,  as  are  the  rest  of  us. 

And  that  brings  me  back  to  the  BAM: 
We  do  read  it,  and  we  even  write  letters 
to  the  editor.  Then  we  get  back  to  the 
relationships  that  are  so  much  more  mean- 
ingful at  this  stage  in  our  lives. 

Lawrence  R.  Ross  '52 

New  York  City 


The  Ice  Cream  Man  Goeth 

Anyone  who  has  attended  a  Brown  foot- 
ball or  hockey  game  is  surely  familiar  with 
[irnmy,  the  gentleman  who  for  some  thirty 
years  sold  refreshments  in  the  stands.  The 
sound  ot  his  voice  screeching  "ice  cream" 
and  "popcorn"  is  part  ot  my  memories  of 
attending  Brown  sports  events.  His  cheers 
and  his  high-fives  made  every  Brown 
score  a  bit  sweeter. 

After  five  years  away,  this  tall  I  returned 
to  Brown  and  found  that  Jimmy  has  retired 
from  his  job.  At  the  Princeton-Brown 
football  game.  1  saw  him  standing  alone, 
quietly.  I  would  like  to  salute  Jimmy  for 
his  spirit  and  dedication  during  his  long 
Brown  career. 

David  Small  'c)2 

Providence 

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Our  Government,  Our  War 

I  write  concerning  Alan  Meyers  s  letter 
("Student  Strike  Changed  His  Life"  Mail, 
September/October),  in  which  he  used  a 
curious  phrase  to  describe  the  war  in  Viet- 
nam: "our  government's  war."  Why  was 
this  conflict  just  "our  government's  war"? 

I  do  not  want  to  be  unfair  to  Dr. 
Meyers,  who  must  be  admired  for  turning 
a  difficult  situation  into  something  posi- 
tive for  himself.  But  the  distinction  he 
has  drawn,  in  a  disquieting  way,  reminds 
me  of  North  Vietnam's  efforts  at  that  time 
to  appeal  politically  to  the  people  of  this 
country  as  if  they  were  different  from 
and  not  responsible  for  the  cruel  acts  of  a 
ruthless  government.  1  reject  the  implicit 
dichotomy  between  people  and  their 
government,  and  I  suggest  such  a  distinc- 
tion paves  the  way  to  responsibility- 
avoidance  and  misunderstanding. 


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Yes,  I  admit  to  being  a  little  sensitive 
about  this  issue,  as  I  was,  like  Dr.  Meyers  s 
buddies,  called  to  serve  in  Vietnam  (1967- 
68).  Whether  anyone  supported  that  effort 
or  not,  or  is  proud  or  ashamed  of  it,  is 
not  the  point.  My  point  is  that  Vietnam 
was  not  the  "government's  war"-  it  was  mv 
war.  our  war.  We  must  all  answer  for  it, 
for  better  or  worse,  just  as  we  are  all  re- 
sponsible for  "our  government." 

In  my  view  the  shunning  of  responsi- 
bility for  the  Vietnam  War  reflects  the  same 
attitude  that  helped  perpetuate  the  inex- 
cusable neglect  of  our  veterans,  on  whom 
we  turned  our  collective  back  for  so  many 
long  and  painful  years,  thereby  creating 
another  class  of  victims  of  that  war. 

Peter  D.  Stergios  '64 

New  York  City 


More  Millennial  Musings 

The  letter  from  David  Detrich  '60  ("More 
on  the  Millennium,"  Mail,  September/ 
October)  commenting  on  the  letter  "Here 
Comes  the  Millennium"  by  Dr.Juanita 
Wagner  '49  Ph.D.  (Mail,  May)  caught  my 
eye.  Mr.  Detrich  and  Dr.  Wagner  both 
may  be  wrong. 

Mr.  Detrich  points  out  that  the  enu- 
meration of  years  from  the  birth  of  Christ 
actually  began  with  the  year  one,  and, 
therefore,  the  new  millennium  begins  on 
January  1 ,  2001 .  not  2000,  as  many  insist. 
He  states.  "Time  went  from  the  end  of 
1  B.C.  to  the  beginning  of  1  A.D"  I'm 
sure  he  is  aware  that  people  didn't  suddenly 
begin  re-counting  after  the  star  appeared 
over  Bethlehem.  Nor  did  the  world 
suddenly  go  back  thirty-three  years  to  the 
beginning  of  Christ's  life  and  re-count 
them  after  the  miraculous  event  of  the 
resurrection. 

It  was  in  the  sixth  century  that  the 
scholar  Dionysius  Exiguus  developed  a 
calendar  based  on  the  birth  of  Christ. 
He  had  only  references  in  the  gospels  to 
the  political  leaders  of  the  time  on  which 
to  base  his  calculations  (Herod,  king  of 
Judea,  Matthew  2: 1 ;  Quirmius,  governor 
ot  Syria,  Luke  2:2).  Modern  scholars  gen- 
erally believe  that  Dionysius  Exiguus's 
calculations  are  wrong  and  that  Christ's 
birth  was  actually  several  years  earlier 
than  originally  thought.  If  that  is  true,  the 
momentous  millennium  has  already 
come  and  gone. 

Wanda  Hunter 

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Interpreting  Title  IX 

Writers  of  recent  letters  suggesting  that 
President  Gregorian  may  have  charted  an 
independent  course  regarding  Title  IX 
litigation  are  misinformed.  Each  and  every 
action  taken  by  the  president  and  the 
University  was  a  studied,  principled  re- 
sponse to  what  many  see  as  a  misinterpre- 
tation ot  an  important  law.  As  chairman 
of  the  Corporation  Committee  on  Ath- 
letics, and  as  a  longtime  member  of  the 
Corporation  Legal  &  Governmental 
Affairs  Committee,  I  know  firsthand  that 
the  Corporation,  its  officers,  and  appro- 
priate committees  were  kept  fully  advised 
of  the  issues  and  of  Brown's  position,  and 
were  involved  when  major  decisions 
were  made. 

At  no  time  did  these  Corporation 
committees  believe  it  was  inappropriate 
for  us  to  vigorously  assert  our  views  and 
to  defend  the  University's  stellar  record 
of  accomplishment  and  commitment 
to  equal  treatment.  The  only  matter  that 
remained  for  trial  was  the  issue  of  pro- 
portionality and  its  broader  implications 
relating  to  all  University  programs.  That 
fundamental  issue  remains  to  be  resolved 
by  the  Supreme  Court. 

In  the  meantime,  we  have  an  ever- 
improving  athletic  program  with  outstand- 
ing men  and  women  student-athletes 
whose  everyday  efforts  to  bring  honor  to 
Brown  merit  our  admiration  and  support. 

Joseph  L.  Tauro  \  ? 

Boston 
The  writer,  a  trustee  emeritus,  is  chief  judge  of 
the  U.S.  District  Court,  Boston.  -  Editor 


All  in  Favor,  Say  Neigh 

I  am  writing  to  correct  Bob  Christin's 
misapprehension  that  the  varsity  eques- 
trian team  was  added  only  to  fulfill  Title 
IX  requirements  and  does  not  increase 
the  participation  ot  Brown  women  in 
varsity  sports  ("Time  to  Change  Title  IX," 
Mail,  September/October). 

The  equestrian  team  was  added  (thanks 
to  generous  donor  funding)  because 
research  showed  that  there  was  a  lot  ot 
interest  in  joining  such  a  team.  Last  year, 
ioo  students  came  to  the  first  informa- 
tional meeting. 

Mr.  Christm  and  I  have  differing 
views  of  Title  IX's  benefits  to  female  ath- 
letes. I  played  women's  ice  hockey  before 
Title  IX,  when  we  sold  chocolate  bars 
to  raise  money  to  travel  to  Canada  to 
play  the  nearest  team.  We  had  inadequate 
safety  equipment  and  depended  on  vol- 


unteers from  the  men's  varsity  team  to 
coach  us.  We  had  three  hours  of  ice  time 
a  week  at  non-prime  times. 

Anyone  who  has  seen  the  caliber  of 
women's  ice  hockey  now,  with  great  coach- 
ing, equipment,  and  lots  ot  good  ice  time, 
wll  not  question  the  benefits  ot  adequate 
funding.  I  am  delighted  that  my  daughter 
and  her  friends  have  great  role  models 
such  as  the  female  athletes  at  Brown. 

Marria  Hoffer  Goctz  'yi 

Barrington,  R.I. 

The  members  ot  the  varsity  equestrian 
team  do  not  appreciate  the  cynical  views 
ot  Bob  Christin  '69.  To  claim  that  our 
team  exists  merely  to  bolster  Brown  in 
the  wake  of  problems  with  Title  IX  is 
simply  unfair.  Besides  the  obvious  over- 
sight that  the  team  is  coeducational,  your 
reader  is  overlooking  the  tremendous 
commitment  and  enthusiasm  ot  the  team 
members  and  the  prestige  they  bring  to 
our  school. 

The  response  to  the  varsity  status  of 
Brown's  equestrian  team  has  been  enor- 
mous. Last  year,  seventy  students  tried  out 
for  the  team.  This  year,  forty-hve  students 
tried  out  for  only  ten  spots.  Our  team 
carries  some  ot  the  best  riders  in  the  coun- 
try, and  various  representatives  of  Brown 
deal  with  an  endless  list  of  inquiries  from 
prospective  freshmen.  Clearly  our  team  is 
building  a  solid  position  at  Brown  out- 
side the  Title  IX  debate. 

Sam  Seideu  'gg 

Sari  Sharaby  '00 

Campus 

Good  Company 

It  was  a  very  long  time  ago  that  I  first 
subscribed  to  the  BAM,  and  I  did  so 
111  hopes  ot  getting  glimpses  into  the  lives 
ot  my  Brown  contemporaries.  This  hap- 
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John  H.  Lcavitt  '  sg 

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Campus 


Off  the  Mark 

I  read  with  delight  E.  Gordon  Gee's 
recent  letter  of  introduction  to  the 
alumni,  but  one  statement  surprised  me. 
He  wrote,  "It  is  my  sincere  hope  that  in 
the  coming  years  Brown  will  not  be  seen 
as  a  distant  place  isolated  on  a  hill,  sur- 
rounded by  an  academic  Berlin  Wall." 

To  me,  this  sentiment  is  quite  off  the 
mark  and  implies  a  lack  of  basic  under- 
standing of  Brown's  phiosophy  and  prac- 
tice. I  welcome  President  Gee  and  wish 
him  well,  but  I  sincerely  hope  he  comes 
to  understand  Brown  better. 

Robert  A.  Sarno  '86 

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Under  the  Elms 


At  brown,  most  discus- 
sions about  race  happen 
in  so-called  sate  places:  in 
classrooms,  committee  rooms, 
and  dorm  rooms  —  or,  for 
students  of  color,  during  the 
Third  World  Transition  Pro- 
gram (TWTP),  a  four-day 
megaworkshop  on  race, 
class,  and  gender  that  pre- 
cedes the  general  freshman 
orientation.  In  such  dis- 
cussions, students  and  fac- 
ulty air  their  grievances,  as 
well  as  their  views  on 
such  thorny  issues  as  cul- 
tural difference,  assimila- 
tion, and  affirmative  action, 
with  some  protection  from 
the  political  winds  just  out- 
side the  door.  Step  outside  the 
personal  or  the  theoretical, 
though,  and  all  refuge  is  gone 
—  or  so  the  thinking  went 
until  last  semester. 

In  September  and  October, 
President-elect  E.  Gordon 
Gee's  administration  convened 
a  series  of  meetings  with  rep- 
resentatives of  minority-student 
groups  and  veterans  of  TWTP. 
While  no  changes  in  programs 
have  been  announced,  some 
members  of  the  Brown  com- 
munity quickly  perceived 
that  a  changing  of  the  guard 
could  lead  to  a  rethinking  of 
the  way  the  University  han- 
dles race  relations.  Whether  or 
not  such  perceptions  are  jus- 
tified, race  suddenly  became  a 
hot  topic  around  campus.  In 
a  televised  debate,  students 
and  faculty  hashed  out  the  pros 
and  cons  of  affirmative  action. 
The  letters  page  of  the  Brown 
Daily  Herald,  a  veritable  Ping- 
Pong  match  of  conflicting 
views,  engulfed  the  news  sec- 
tion: for  must  readers,  it  was 
the  news.  I  lie  result  was  a  series 


Socratic  Dialogue 

An  ancient  Greek  philosopher 
sparks  a  timely  debate  on  race 


of  public  discussions  about 
race  that  many  participants  be- 
lieve were  the  most  construc- 
tive in  recent  memory. 

So  who  turned  up  the 
heat  on  this  most  incendiary 
of  issues?  The  short  answer  is 
Socrates.  In  September,  Assis- 
tant Professor  of  Political  Sci- 
ence John  Tomasi  asked  650 
students  vying  tor  a  place  in 
his  popular  class,  Introduction 
to  Political  Thought,  what  the 
tree-thinking  Greek  philos- 
opher would  think  of  today's 
Brown.  Did  the  University 
encourage  discussion,  Tomasi 
wondered,  or  were  Brunonians 
like  the  Athenians  ofSocrates's 
time  -  a  "nervous  and  un- 
certain people"  who  squelched 
debate  and  executed  contro- 
versial figures,  including 
Socrates  himself?  In  particular, 
Tomasi  asked  how  the  philoso- 
pher would  view  TWTP  and 


the  orientation  program  in 
general.  For  instance,  why  did 
upperclassmen  "orient"  first- 
year  students?  Perhaps,  Tomasi 
suggested,  it  should  work  the 
other  way  around. 

The  lecture  was  well 
received,  Tomasi  says,  both  by 
his  prospective  students  and 
by  a  capacity  crowd  when 
he  repeated  it  during  Parents' 
Weekend.  Only  when  an 
account  of  the  talk  appeared 
m  the  BDH  on  November  s 
did  Tomasi  become  a  lightning 
rod  for  racial  tensions.  What 
was  originally  a  hypothetical 
Socratic  dialogue  "came  out 
looking  like  a  broadside" 
against  TWTP, Tomasi  says  — 
which  was  not  the  soft-spoken 
professor's  intent. The  roiling 
debate  that  ensued  in  the  pages 
of  the  BDH  and  in  a  packed 
November  \z  symposium 
on  race  raised  a  larger,  more 


troubling  issue  tor  Tomasi. 
"There's  a  tendency  to 
think  that  when  we  ask 
questions  about  a  program, 
we're  attacking  it,"  he  said. 
"And  that's  dangerous." 

That  danger  was  appar- 
ent last  semester,  when 
the  Asian  American  Stu- 
dents Association  invited 
conservative  author  Dinesh 
D'Souza  to  debate  affirma- 
tive action  with  Frank  Wu, 
a  liberal  law  professor  from 
Howard  University.  (By  co- 
incidence, Tomasi  had  agreed 
to  moderate  the  debate  two 
months  before  the  Socrates  im- 
broglio.) D'Souza's  views  are 
generally  unpalatable  among 
Brown  students  and  faculty.  In 
his  best-selling  book  The  End 
of  Racism,  D'Souza  not  only 
opposes  affirmative  action  tor 
holding  back  whites  and  Asian 
Americans,  he  blames  it,  along 
with  desegregation  and  other 
products  of  the  civil  rights 
movement,  for  African  Amer- 
icans' social  "pathology"  and 
for  the  cultural  decay  of  the 
inner  cities. 

"We  thought  the  best  way 
to  represent  the  [affirmative- 
action]  debate  was  to  invite 
the  most  controversial  figure 
around,"  said  Devinder  Singh 
'98,  who  invited  D'Souza 
and  Wu,  both  of  whom  are 
Asian  American,  as  the  high- 
light of  Asian  American  History 
Month.  "We  didn't  want  to 
debate  affirmative  action  111 
classic  Brown  style,  just  hearing 
the  PC.  liberal  side  of  the 
issue  and  smiling  and  feeling 
good  about  that."  More  than 
500  students  flocked  to  the 
event,  with  another  200  turned 
away  for  lack  of  space.  Many 


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Under  the  Elms 


attended  to  sharpen  their  own 
thoughts  on  the  issue  -  "to 
figure  out  what  kind  of  agenda 
they  need  to  set  up,"  said 
Karen  McLaurin-Chesson  '73, 
associate  dean  of  the  College 
and  director  of  the  Third 
World  Center. 

A  handful  ot  students,  how- 
ever, came  out  of  a  sense  of 
outrage  that  D'Souza  would 
be  allowed  to  explain  his  view 
on  campus.  The  International 
Socialist  Organization  (ISO) 
had  plastered  posters  around 
campus  and  written  letters  to 
the  BDH  denouncing  (and  at 
times  misquoting)  D'Souza's 
books.  About  thirty  members 
of  the  group  picketed  outside 
Andrews  Dining  Hall,  where 
the  debate  was  held,  shouting 
that  there  should  be  "no  free 
speech  for  hatemongers." 
According  to  the  ISO's  Pranav 
Jani,  a  graduate  student  in 
English,  "Inviting  someone  of 
Dinesh  D'Souza's  stature  to 
Brown  represents  a  victory  for 
him."  Rather  than  debating 
D'Souza,  the  ISO  wanted,  in 
Jam's  words,  to  "effectively 
shut  him  up"  by  building  sub- 
stantial opposition  to  his  very 
presence  on  campus. 

The  strategy  didn't  work. 
Students  expressed  overwhelm- 
ing support  for  the  debate,  if 
not  necessarily  for  D'Souza, 
and  the  cable  network  C- 
SPAN  broadcast  a  tape  of  the 
event  on  December  13.  (It  will 
be  rebroadcast  in  February.) 
By  preventing  the  protesters 
from  reducing  the  occasion  to 
a  shouting  match,  students 
proved  to  Tomasi,  among  oth- 
ers, that  they  were  willing  to 
hear  and  discuss  a  spectrum 
of  views  on  even  a  subject  as 
volatile  as  affirmative  action. 

All  of  which  is  not  to 
downplay  the  racial  tensions 
that  do  exist  just  beneath  the 
surface  at  Brown  -  as  well 
as  at  most  other  universities. 
Some  white  students  feel  un- 
fairly excluded  froniTWTP, 
which  takes  place  before  they 


get  to  campus  in  the  fall  and, 
they  say,  divides  the  class  into 
racial  subgroups  before  any 
chance  of  unity  is  possible. 
At  the  same  time,  only  half  of 
all  minority  students  partici- 
pate in  the  program,  and  not 
all  participants  support  it. 

Race  at  Brown  is  literally 
no  longer  a  black-and- 
white  issue.  While  affirmative 
action  programs  and  TWTP 
grew  out  of  efforts  to  bring 
more  African-American  stu- 
dents to  Brown  in  the  1960s 
and  1970s,  over  the  past  ten 
years,  the  number  of  Latino 
and  Asian  students  at  the  Uni- 
versity has  doubled,  while  the 
number  of  black  students 
has  dipped  slightly.  This  multi- 
racial dimension  of  campus 
lite  has  steered  much  of  the 
discussion  about  race  toward 
more  complex,  nuanced  ques- 
tions:Where  does  race  inter- 
sect with  class,  for  example,  in 
such  contentious  issues  as  need- 
blind  admission 


and  financial  aid?  How  can 
Brown  both  respect  racial  dif- 
ferences among  students,  fac- 
ulty, and  staff  and  foster  cross- 
cultural  understanding? 

Although  these  issues  have 
long  been  kicked  around  111 
private,  the  Tomasi  brouhaha 
and  the  D'Souza  debate 
brought  them  to  the  Brown 
community  at  large  -  and  that 
new  openness  may  have  last- 
ing effects.  In  November,  Dean 
of  Student  Life  Robin  Rose 
assembled  a  multiracial  group 
to  discuss  the  issues  raised 
throughout  the  semester,  and 
she  plans  to  continue  the  dia- 
logue in  sessions  throughout 
the  spring.  Likewise,  Associate 
Professor  of  Afro-American 
Studies  Lewis  Gordon  led  a 
discussion  group  in  November 
about  the  apathy  ot  white 
students  toward  campus  racial 
issues.  When  a  similar  group 
was  organized  two  years  ago,  it 
fizzled  out  for  lack  of  interest; 
this  year  more  than  150  stu- 
dents showed 


Book  Ma 


Professor  of  Visual  Arts  Walter  Feldman  has  been  making 
books  since  he  was  eight  years  old.  His  creations,  which 
were  on  display  last  fall  at  the  Rockefeller  Library,  include 
this  accordion-shaped  piece,  Song  of  Songs,  based  on  an 
Old  Testament  love  poem.  Framed  by  bright  flower-like 
shapes  and  swirls,  the  text  was  handset  on  Feldman's  own 
press,  a  1953  Vandercook  model,  and  printed  on  fibrous 
Japanese  paper.  Feldman  says  he  chose  the  accordion 
format  because  he  "wanted  to  have  a  book  format  that 
could  be  changed  into  different  shapes.  I  wanted  the  idea 
of  touching,  of  getting  involved  in  the  feeling  of  the  book." 


up,  two-thirds  of  them  white, 
and  they  arranged  to  meet 
monthly  for  the  rest  of  the  year. 

In  January,  what  was  for- 
merly a  one-day  faculty  and 
staff  celebration  ot  Martin 
Luther  Kingjr.'s  birthday  will 
become  a  weeklong  roster 
of  workshops  on  racial  aware- 
ness and  history,  culminating 
in  a  talk  by  Gee.  Given  the 
kind  of  dialogue  that  has  arisen 
on  campus  this  fall,  it's  likely 
to  be  the  kind  ot  week  even 
Socrates  would  approve  of. 
-  Shea  Dean 


A  Country, 
Not  a  War 

Two  ambassadors  remember 
the  past  and  face  the  future 


'W; 


hen  people  in  the 
United  States  hear  the 
word  'Vietnam,'  they  think  of 
a  war,"  said  CNN  correspon- 
dent Ralph  Begleiter  '71  in 
introducing  the  speakers  at  a 
historic  forum  that  took 
place  in  the  Salomon  Center 
tor  Teaching  last  November. 
"When  people  in  Vietnam 
hear  the  world  'Vietnam,'  they 
think  of  a  country."  That,  he 
pointed  out,  is  the  crucial 
difference  in  perception  that 
still  keeps  Vietnam  and  the 
United  States  apart. 

That  this  perception  gap 
is  slowly  closing,  however, 
was  evident  in  the  presence 
on  stage  of  two  men  who  had 
never  before  appeared  to- 
gether at  a  public  forum: 
Douglas  "Pete"  Peterson,  the 
first  U.S.  ambassador  to  Viet- 
nam since  the  war,  and  Le  Van 
Bang,  the  Vietnamese  ambas- 
sador to  the  United  States. 
The  event  was  an  informal 
Stephen  A.Ogden  Jr.  Memor- 
ial Lecture  on  International 
Affairs;  the  two  ambassadors 
sat  in  comfortable  chairs 
around  a  low  table  answering 
questions  from  Begleiter. 


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U.S.  Ambassador 
Pete  Peterson 
and  Vietnamese 
Ambassador  Le 
Van  Bang  warm  up 
in  Gardner  House 
before  their  Ogden 
Lecture  last  fall. 


Then  again,  these  were  no 
ordinary  ambassadors.  Their 
meeting  was  significant  not 
only  diplomatically  but  person- 
ally. Peterson,  an  Air  Force 
pilot  shot  down  during  the 
Vietnam  War  and  later  a  three- 
term  Democratic  congress- 
man from  Florida,  spent  six- 
and-a-half  years  as  a  prisoner 
of  war,  including  time  in 
the  infamous  prison  that  pilots 
called  the  Hanoi  Hilton. 

"When  I  came  home  in 
1973."  Peterson  had  told  Pro- 
fessor ot  History  Charles 
Neu's  class,  America's  Longest 
War:  The  United  States  in 
Vietnam,  that  morning, "I 
came  home  to  a  family  I  no 
longer  knew,  to  a  seven-year- 
old  child  I'd  never  seen.  I 
started  my  life  over  again." 

During  that  same  war, 
Le  Van  Bang  was  a  member  of 
a  brigade  that  repaired  bomb- 
damaged  roads  and  bridges. "I 
was  making  the  holes,"  Peter- 
son joked  at  the  evening  event, 
"and  he  was  filling  them." 
Le  was  in  Hanoi  during  the 
Christmas  bombing  of  1972, 
during  which  B-52S  devas- 
tated the  city.  Later,  as  a  young 
diplomat,  he  was  the  first  man 
to  receive  Henry  Kissinger 
in  Vietnam  after  the  signing 
of  the  Paris  Peace  Accords. 

As  the  two  men  reminded 
their  audience,  their  work  has 
been  made  more  difficult  by 
1  he  long  and  bitter  memory 
of  most  Americans  toward  the 

war.  For  decades  the  issue  of' 


accounting  for  U.S.  prisoners  of 
war  and  for  soldiers  missing  in 
action  has  precluded  relations 
between  the  two  countries. 
But  thanks  to  what  Peterson 
described  as  a  "monumental 
effort"  to  account  for  the 
POWs  and  MIAs.  the  two 
countries  finally  exchanged 
ambassadors  last  June.  "The 
POW/MIA  issue  delayed 
efforts  to  normalize  relations," 
Peterson  said,  "but  it  was  the 
POW/MIA  issue  that  finally 
led  us  back  to  Vietnam." 

For  now,  Vietnam  has  more 
to  gain  from  this  new  rela- 
tionship than  does  the  United 
States.  "On  the  one  hand," 
said  LeVan  Bang,  "we  have  in- 
dependence now,  but  on  the 
other  hand,  we  don't  have  a 
better  living  standard  for  our 
people."  Peterson  added  that 
attracting  U.S.  businesses  has 
become  such  a  strong  desire  in 
Vietnam  that  as  he  travels  the 
country  his  past  is  never  men- 
tioned. Investment  always  is. 

Both  ambassadors  cau- 
tioned that,  despite  the  new 
era  ot  good  feeling  between 
the  two  countries,  serious  ob- 
stacles remain.  "It's  still  very 
difficult  to  do  business  in 
Vietnam,"  Peterson  explained. 
"The  country  is  weak  in 
management  expertise,  and 
the  judicial  system  is  not  very 
good.  The  word  'audit'  is 
largely  unknown.  And  Viet- 
nam does  not  yet  enjoy  Most 
Favored  Nation  status,  mostly 
because  the  Administration 


cannot  certify  that  the  coun- 
try has  free  immigration. 
Because  of  this,  if  you  make  a 
widget  in  Vietnam,  you  can't 
send  it  to  the  United  States, 
the  biggest  consumer  in  the 
world."  Nevertheless,  Ford 
now  makes  vehicles  in  Viet- 
nam, and  more  than  500  U.S. 
companies  are  doing  business 
there  for  markets  outside  the 
United  States. 

Peterson  and  LeVan  Bang 
have  become  good  friends, 
and  the  warmth  between  them 
was  evident  during  their 
Salomon  conversation.  Also 
striking  was  the  civility  of  the 
audience.  There  were  no 
demonstrations  and  only  one 
hostile  question  (from  an 
audience  member  concerned 
about  the  persecution  of 
Buddhists  in  Vietnam)  -  a  far 
cry  from  the  reception  Peter- 
son in  particular  would  have 
received  on  a  college  campus 
twenty-five  years  ago. 

Asked  about  that  era,  Peter- 
son said,  "One  of  the  major 
reasons  I  decided  to  accept  the 
opportunity  to  be  the  ambas- 
sador to  Vietnam  was  to  heal. 
I  and  my  family  experienced 
every  indignity,  every  pain 
short  of  death.  Now  I  want  to 
reconcile  and  do  something 
constructive.  I  have  no  con- 
trol over  what  happened  yes- 
terday, but  I  have  full  control 
over  and  a  responsibility  tor 
what  happens  tomorrow.  I  have 
a  responsibility  to  do  it  right." 
—  Nornitw  Boucher 


Aging  Science 

How  we  get  old  -  and  when 

You  don't  need  a  micro- 
scope to  see  the  effects 
ot  aging:  some  graying,  some 
loss  of  memory,  a  sudden 
attraction  to  golf  or  gardening. 
But  understanding  the  bio- 
logical causes  of  growing  old 
requires  a  close  inspection  of 
genes,  those  tiny,  ubiquitous 
reservoirs  of  the  code  that 
tells  all  living  things  -  from 
fruit  flies  to  humans  —  how  to 
make  the  proteins  that  deter- 
mine our  physical  makeup. 


Two  recent  studies  by 
Brown  researchers  have  dra- 
matically advanced  our  under- 
standing of  the  ways  genes 
determine  how  we  age  and 
how  long  we  live.  John  M. 
Sedivy,  associate  professor  of 
cellular  molecular  biology 
and  biochemistry,  and  his  col- 
leagues Jeremy  P.  Brown  and 
Wenyi  Wei  showed  that  at 
least  one  gene,  called  p2i.  may 
be  responsible  for  actually 
turning  on  the  aging  process. 

The  study,  whose  results 
were  published  in  Science, 
showed  that  cells  without  a 
p2i  gene  never  underwent 
senescence,  the  extended 
period  of  arrested  growth  that 
precedes  death.  Rather,  these 
cells  continued  to  divide 
right  up  until  the  time  they 
died,  completely  skipping 
their  "old  age." 

If  this  is  the  case,  then 
why  would  our  bodies  harbor 
.1  normal  gene  that  triggers  its 


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Under  the  Elms 


own  decline?  "It's  all  specula- 
tion at  this  point,"  Sedivy  says, 
"but  maybe  senescence  is  actu- 
ally protective  against  cancer, 
a  process  which  is  very  closely 
tied  to  growth.  Perhaps  the 
incidence  ot  cancerous  trans- 
formation would  be  even 
higher  if  we  did  not  have  this 
extended  period  without  cell 
growth  and  reproduction." 

The  question  of  how  to 
delay  senescence  as  long  as 
possible  was  the  subject  of  an 
article  m  a  recent  issue  of 
Nature  by  Assistant  Professor 
of  Ecology  and  Evolutionary 
Biology  Marc  Tatar  and  re- 
searchers at  the  University  of 
Minnesota.  Until  now,  the 
conventional  wisdom  has 
been  that  eliminating  stress  is 
an  important  ingredient  in 
the  recipe  for  living  a  long 
and  healthy  life.  But  a  report 
in  the  November  7  issue  of 
the  scientific  journal  Nature 
indicates  that  at  least  some 
kinds  ot  discomfort  may  help 
some  organisms  live  longer. 

Tatar  showed  that  fruit 
flies  heated  as  young  adults  to 
thirty-six  degrees  Centigrade 


(about  human  body  tempera- 
ture) lived  longer  than  flies 
kept  cool  and  comfortable. 
That  the  flies  would  respond 
to  heat  was  expected;  all  ani- 
mals have  genes  for  making 
so-called  heat  shock  proteins, 
which  help  animals  respond 
to  stress.  These  heat  shock  pro- 
teins work  by  wrapping  other 
proteins  in  a  protective  cloak. 

But  Tatar  discovered  that 
longer-lived  flies  had  higher 
levels  of  heat  shock  protein  70 
(hspyo).  One  group  was  given 
additional  hspyo  genes  and 
then  exposed  to  heat  for 
varying  amounts  of  time.  The 
longer  the  flies  were  heated  - 
and  the  more  hspyo  they  pro- 
duced -  the  longer  they  lived. 

Two  other  sets  of  flies  were 
never  exposed  to  heat,  one 
with  extra  hspyo  genes  and 
one  without.  Both  sets  lived 
shorter  lives  than  the  heated 
flies,  raising  the  possibility 
that  some  kinds  of  stress  may 
permit  animals  to  live  longer. 

"The  average  fruit  fly  out- 
side the  laboratory  is  probably 
exposed  to  enough  heat 
shocks  every  day  to  activate 


SINCE     LAST    TIME... 

Senior  Kristi  Abrams  was  named  a  Rhodes  scholar,  while  Sylvia 
Sellers-Garcia  '98  and  Justin  Driver  '97  won  Marshall  scholar- 
ships. . . .  Dean  of  Student  Life  Robin  Rose  was  a  part  of  a  group 
that  had  breakfast  with  President  Clinton  in  November  during 
the  White  House  Conference  on  Hate  Crimes  Led  by 
the  Young  Communist  League,  thirty  students  stormed  into 
the  office  of  Donald  Reaves,  the  executive  vice  president  for 
finance  and  administration,  demanding  that  Brown  waive  late  fees 
and  interest  rates  for  students  on  financial  aid  and  allow  anyone 
from  Providence  access  to  University  libraries;  Police  and  Security 
officers  escorted  the  group  out  after  ten  minutes. . . .  Professor  of 
Mathematics  Thomas  Banchoff  was  named  Rhode  Island  Profes- 
sor of  the  Year, , . .  Professor  of  Cognitive  and  Linguistic  Sciences 
and  former  Dean  of  the  College  Sheila  Blumstem  was  named 
interim  provost  until  June  30, 1998. . .  .The  athletic  department 
unveiled  a  new  logo,  featuring  a  snarling  bear  with  claws. 


the  genes  that  raise  levels  of 
hspyo,"  Tatar  observes.  "This 
study  suggests  that  maintaining 
protein  structure  is  important 
to  longevity,  since  this  is  what 
heat  shock  proteins  do." 

Now  all  we  need  is  to  get 
rid  of  our  p2i  and  take  hsp  yo 
supplements.  -John  F.  Lauerman 


ship  committees  and  praise 
from  her  professors. The 
enthusiasm  in  her  voice  -  and 
the  fact  that  she  spends  up  to 
twenty  hours  per  week  doing 
independent  research  —  hints 
that  this  is  a  labor  of  love,  not 
simply  resume  fodder.  "The 
lab  is  like  having  a  really  fun 


Corrosion  Proof 

Facing  down  adversity 

KRYSTYN   VAN   VLIET  '98 
is  a  woman  on  the  go,  a 
blond  blur  streaking  across 
campus  on  her  way  to  crew 
practice  or  lab  or  one  of  sev- 
eral volunteer  jobs.  "My  room- 
mates think  I'm  a  tad  over- 
scheduled,"  she  says  with  a 
laugh,  "but  it's  the  way  I  keep 
my  sanity." 

Three  years  of  oversched- 
uling  earned  Van  Vliet  the 
first  William  Park  Woodside 
Scholarship  from  ASM  Inter- 
national (a  society  tor  materials 
engineers),  which  is  covering 
her  full  senior-year  tuition.  It 
is  one  of  three  national  awards 
Van  Vliet,  a  materials-science 
engineering  concentrator 
from  New  Jersey,  has  earned 
this  year. 

Van  Vliet  has  no  trouble 
tilling  up  an  application; 
her  research  alone,  a  three-year 
study  ot  titanium  corrosion, 
merits  interest  from  scholar- 


Krystyn  van  Vliet  '98  has  coffee 
with  Fred,  whom  she  met  through 
Best  Buddies. 


job,"  Van  Vliet  explains.  "I 
come  in,  plan  what  I'm  going 
to  do,  then  do  it.  I  prefer 
applied  research  because  I  get 
to  see  immediately  how  it's 
put  to  use." 

She  devotes  much  of  her 
down  time  to  volunteer  work, 
including  directing  the  Brown 
chapter  of  Best  Buddies,  an 
organization  that  matches 
mentally  retarded  people  with 
a  buddy.  Van  Vliet  has  been  a 
buddy  to  Fred,  a  local  man, 
for  two  years.  The  pair  meets 
weekly,  usually  for  coffee.  "He 
doesn't  speak,"  she  says, "but 
he  has  certain  signs  that  I  can 
understand.  When  he  makes 
the  sign  for  coffee  grinder, 
I  know  what  he  wants."  The 
first  year  the  two  were  buddies, 
Van  Vliet  says,  it  was  a  matter 
of  "sitting  there  trying  to 
get  used  to  each  other."  But, 
she  adds, "Now  that  I  don't  feel 
the  need  to  fill  every  minute 


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Under  the  Elms 


of  silence,  I  look  forward  to 
seeing  him  every  week  and 
am  incredibly  sad  about  the 
prospect  ot  leaving  him  when 
I  graduate." 

VanVliet  attributes  her 
altruism  and  boundless  energy 
to  two  factors.  "Part  ot  it  has 
to  do  with  the  way  I  was 
raised,  as  part  of  a  community 
that  constantly  reinforces  the 
notion  that  you're  only  one 
part  of  a  much  bigger  picture," 
she  says.  "I  knew  I  couldn't  just 
come  to  college  to  do  course- 
work.  And  then,  of  course, 
there's  the  fact  that  I'm  glad 
to  be  around  to  do  this  stutr." 

In  her  senior  year  ot  high 
school,  Van  Vliet  suffered  severe 
head  injuries  in  a  car  accident. 
She  regained  the  ability  to 
speak  after  months  of  rehabil- 
itation, but  her  memory  re- 
mained impaired,  even  after 
she  arrived  at  Brown.  Although 
she  tried  to  pretend  that  her 
memory  was  fine  to  avoid 
thinking  of  herself  as  someone 
who  had  a  problem.  Van  Vliet 
quickly  realized  she  would 
need  help.  A  professor  put  her 
in  contact  with  Robert  Shaw, 
an  associate  dean  who  assists 
learning-disabled  students.  He 
helped  Van  Vliet  document 
her  disability  so  that  she  could 
ask  her  professors  for  special 
accommodations  (such  as  extra 
time  on  tests)  when  needed. 

But,  as  Professor  ot  Engi- 
neering Clyde  Briant  quickly 
and  emphatically  points  out, 
"Krystyn  has  achieved  what 
she  has  achieved  because  she  is 
a  very  bright  woman  who 
works  very  hard.  She  is  not  a 
disabled  student.  Her  accident 
was  m  the  past,  and  it's  best  to 
keep  it  in  the  past." 

VanVliet  says  initially  she 
was  hesitant  to  go  public  with 
something  as  private  as  her 
i  i  ident  and  rehabilitation,  but 
"my  parents  reminded  me  lh.it 
when  1  was  in  the  hospital.it 
gave  me  so  much  comfort 
to  hear  from  people  who  had 
been  m  similar  situations." 


Inspirational  though  her 
story  may  be.  Van  Vliet  empha- 
sizes that  she's  not  a  super- 
woman.  "Certainly,  I'm  a  real 
person,"  she  says.  "I  get  ex- 
hausted, drink  too  much  cof- 
tee,  and  have  a  habit  ot  over- 
extending  myself  Although 
this  constant  motion  can  some- 
times worry  my  friends,  for 
me  it's  when  the  action  stops 
that  I  get  worried.  There's  so 
much  to  do,  and  I  don't  want 
to  miss  out  on  it."-  Torri  Still 


The  Art  of 
Teaching 

It's  not  as  easy  as  it  looks 

NO  ONE  CERTIFIES  col- 
lege professors.  Unlike 
teachers  in  public  high  schools, 
they  need  no  proof  of  train- 
ing or  competency.  It's  no 
surprise,  then,  that  the  quality 
ot  teaching  at  universities 
varies  widely,  or  that  many 
graduate  students  facing  their 


Lee  S.  Shulman,  president 
of  the  Carnegie  Foundation 
for  the  Advancement  of 
Teaching,  speaks  at  the 
dedication  of  the  Sheridan 
Center. 

Below,  Harriet  Sheridan  in 
1980. 


first  class  find  themselves 
wishing  they  were  back  buried 
in  the  library  stacks. 

Ten  years  ago,  Brown 
English  professor  and  Dean  of 
the  College  Harriet  Sheridan 
decided  to  do  something 
about  this.  Sheridan  founded 
the  Center  tor  the  Advance- 


Bagging 


.nAxi        Three  hundred  witches, 
LdMUV 

clowns,  and  farmers,  all 

pumped  full  of  candy  bars  and  hot  chocolate,  ran  amok 
on  Wriston  Quad  the  night  before  Halloween  last 
semester  at  the  invitation  of  campus  fraternities  and 
sororities.  The  teachers  and  parents  who  accompanied 
the  trick-or-treating  kids  deemed  the  event  a  cavity- 
inducing  success,  saying  that  for  some  of  the  children, 
it  was  their  only  chance  to  celebrate  Halloween. 


OHN    li  IRAS  1 1    (3) 


ment  of  College  Teaching  in 
order  to  get  graduate  students 
and  teaching  tellows  to  think 
closely  about  their  classroom 
approach.  Under  her  leader- 
ship -  Sheridan  died  in  1992 
-  the  center  thrived,  broaden- 
ing its  scope  to  offer  work- 
shops, publications,  and  train- 
ing programs  that  cover  all 
phases  of  college  and  univer- 
sity teaching.  Graduate  stu- 
dents today  can  even  earn  a 
teaching  certificate  after 
attending  a  series  of  seminars 
and  consultations,  and  the 
center  provides  faculty  teach- 
ing fellows  and  various  con- 
sultants able  to  observe  classes 
and  offer  advice. 

To  recognize  Sheridan's 
vision,  the  center  celebrated 
its  tenth  anniversary  last  Octo- 
ber by  renaming  itself  The 
Harriet  W.  Sheridan  Center  tor 
Teaching  and  Learning.  Sheri- 
dan, according  to  Rebecca 
More,  the  center's  associate 
director,  believed  in  "teaching 
artfully"  rather  than  "mecha- 
nistically." In  a  memoir  written 
for  the  rededication,  Gregory 
Pingree,  a  graduate  student  111 
English  and  a  former  fellow 
at  the  center,  described  Sheri- 
dan as  "from  the  old  school." 

"For  Harriet,"  Pingree 
wrote,  "to  be  truly  educated 
was  to  seek  to  master  the  past, 
but  also  to  honestly  probe 
and  assess  the  present:  and  to 
teach  was  to  illuminate  for 
others  this  vision  of  humanis- 
tic thinking,  whatever  the 
trouble  it  took."  -  Norman 

Boucher 


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Under  the  Elms 


Patient  heal 
thyself 

Exploring  untraditional 

medicines 

ALTERNATIVE  MEDICINE 
has  come  a  long  way. 
Some  psychiatrists  have  begun 
prescribing  an  herb,  Saint- 
John's-wort,  for  patients  with 
mild  depression.  The  Journal 
oj  theAmerican  Medical  Associa- 
tion last  fall  reported  that 
ginkgo-leaf  extract  -  a  sub- 
stance used  for  centuries  by 
the  Chinese  to  promote 


longevity  -  alleviates  demen- 
tia, such  as  that  caused  by 
Alzheimer's  disease.  And  health 
insurers  now  cover  subscribers' 
visits  to  chiropractors. 

There's  a  good  reason  for 
this  medical  revolution,  said 
three  M.D.'s  who  spoke  to 
twenty  Brown  medical  students 
in  late  October  as  part  of  the 
student-organized  forums  of 
Primary  Care  Day.  When 
administered  judiciously  and 
knowledgeably,  the  physicians 
said,  such  treatments  can 
upgrade  health-care  providers' 
arsenals  in  the  war  against  dis- 
ease and  chronic  illness. 

One  ot  the  guest  speakers. 
family-medicine  specialist 
Cathleen  Sloan  Hood  '79  of 
South  Dartmouth,  Massachu- 
setts, explained  that  her  inter- 
est in  alternative  treatment 
grew  out  of  her  concern  over 
the  steroids  used  to  manage 
her  young  son's  severe  asthma. 
By  the  time  he  was  five.  Hood 
explained,"!  was  getting  fed 
up  with  constantly  giving 


him  prednisone  [a  steroid].  It 
seemed  a  very  toxic  way  of 
handling  his  problem." 

A  friend  referred  Hood  to 
Jerry  Kupperberg,  a  homeo- 
pathic physician  in  Foster, 
Rhode  Island.  Homeopaths 
treat  ailments  by  administering 
dilute  forms  of  aggravating 
substances  that  supposedly  prod 
the  body  to  heal  itself.  The 
approach  -  discredited  for 
much  of  this  century  -  dates 
back  to  the  late  1700s  and  has 
enjoyed  a  minor  renaissance 
during  the  past  decade.  Since 
Kupperberg  treated  Hood's 

son  with  phosphorous  five 

years  ago,  the  boy  has 

needed  prednisone  only 

twice,  and  his 

V  mother  has 

broadened  her 
family  practice 
to  incor- 
porate herbal 
medicine  and  other 
alternative  therapies. 

Lisa  Menard  '00  M.D., 
who  organized  the  alternative- 
care  forum,  observes  that  inter- 
est in  alternative  medicine 
among  medical  students  has 
also  grown  over  the  last  sev- 
eral years.  "The  topic  is  one 
we  will  have  to  be  knowledge- 
able about  as  physicians,"  she 
notes,  "since  many  patients 
use  alternative  medicine  as  a 
form  ot  treatment." 

While  Brown's  medical 
curriculum  hews  closely  to 
traditional  models  of  treat- 
ment, holistic  concepts  have 
been  incorporated  into  a 
number  of  courses  and  semi- 
nars, says  Associate  Dean  of 
Medicine  Stephen  Smith. "In 
my  own  course,  Cost  versus 
Care,  I  devote  a  week  to  alter- 
native medicine,"  he  says.  Stu- 
dents interested  in  learning 
techniques  of  manipulation  can 
study  with  the  several  osteo- 
pathic physicians  on  the  faculty. 
Smith  says,  and  senior  med- 
ical students  can  take  a  course 
on  spirituality  and  medicine. 

The  new  medicine,  said 


forum  participant  Alicia 
Landman-Reiner,  a  family 
physician  in  Northampton, 
Massachusetts,  "is  an  effort  to 
recraft  our  wisdom  about  the 
human  body.  I  use  a  lot  fewer 
drugs  —  maybe  one-eighth 
as  many  antibiotics  as  I  did  in 
a  standard  medical  setting." 

Hood  adds,  "The  crux  ot 
what  we  do  is  empowering 
patients  to  get  better.  "—Anne 

Diffily 

The  Cigarette  Diet 

Quitting  smoking  without 
gaining  weight 

DECIDING  WHETHER  or 
not  to  kick  the  cigarette 
habit  seems  like  a  no-brainer; 
the  smoker  has  nothing  to 
lose  and  everything  to  gain  - 
including,  alas,  weight.  Without 
nicotine,  an  appetite  suppres- 
sant, most  former  smokers 
gain  an  average  often  pounds. 
Women  in  particular  may  cling 
to  smoking  to  avoid  weight 
gain,  while  others  who  quit 
later  panic  and  resume  smok- 
ing when  the  pounds  pile  on. 
Help  may  be  on  the  way. 
Associate  Professor  of  Psychi- 
atry and  Human  Behavior 
Bess  Marcus  and  her  colleagues 
at  Miriam  Hospital's  Division 
of  Behavioral  Medicine  re- 
cently completed  Commit  to 
Quit,  the  largest  study  ever 
to  examine  the  relationship 
between  exercise  and  smoking. 
"We  were  looking  at  women 
smokers,"  Marcus  says  of  her 
project,  which  began  in  1992. 
"We  asked, What  are  the  bar- 
riers to  quitting?"  Weight 
gain  kept  coming  up.  Marcus 
also  knew  that  both  men  and 
women  who  gave  up  smoking 
tend  to  become  depressed  and 
anxious.  "Exercise  had  already 
been  shown  to  help  all  of  these 
problems,"  she  says. 

Using  newspaper  ads, 
the  researchers  recruited  281 
healthv.  sedentary  women 


smokers  who  wanted  to  quit. 
The  women  were  randomly 
assigned  by  a  computer  to 
two  groups. The  control 
group  received  three  health 
lectures  per  week,  while  the 
second  group  attended  three 


■ 

Bess  Marcus 

weekly  sessions  of  supervised, 
vigorous  exercise  at  the  hos- 
pital. In  addition,  all  the  sub- 
jects attended  group  smoking 
cessation  sessions. 

The  results  bore  out  Mar- 
cus's hypothesis:  women  who 
stayed  with  the  exercise  pro- 
gram were  more  likely  to  stay 
off  cigarettes  than  were  their 
peers  in  the  control  group. 
They  also  gained  significantly 
less  weight.  At  the  end  of  the 
twelve-week  program,  those 
who  exercised  had  gained  an 
average  of  six  pounds.  The 
sedentary  group  gained  twice 
as  much.  Even  the  women 
who  weren't  able  to  quit  re- 
ceived health  benefits  from 
the  exercise  program.  "Many 
of  them  cut  down  on  how 
much  they  smoked  as  well," 
Marcus  says. 

Before  Marcus's  study,  no 
one  was  sure  whether  exer- 
cise could  help  women  quit 
smoking  and  gain  less  weight. 
Now,  the  answer  is  clear, 
"c  )ur  study  was  done  conser- 
vatively," Marcus  says.  "We 
can  recommend  to  health  pro- 
fessionals that  they  prescribe 
regular  exercise  as  part  of 
smoking-cessation  programs." 
-Anne  Diffily 


IIBI1WN     ALUMNI     MAGAZINE 


17 


Man  and 
Supercomputer 

Putting  Deep  Blue's  win  in 
perspective 

When  IBM  super- 
computer Deep  Blue 
defeated  world  chess  cham- 
pion Garry  Kasparov  in  a  six- 
game  match  last  May,  media 
pundits  and  technofreaks 
prophesied  doom:  we  have 
succeeded,  they  said,  in  creat- 
ing a  machine  smarter  than 
we  are. 

In  October,  Eliot  Hearst, 
professor  emeritus  of  psy- 
chology at  Indiana  University 
and  a  chess  litemaster,  came 
to  Brown  with  a  different  eye- 
witness report.  "Neither  Kas- 
parov nor  Deep  Blue  played 
at  world-champion  levels," 
the  soft-spoken  former  cap- 
tain of  the  U.S.  Olympic  chess 
team  told  a  packed  room  in 
Hunter  Lab.  "The  match  was 
at  best  inconclusive." 

For  centuries  scientists 
have  been  trying  to  build  a 
machine  that  could  grasp  all 
the  possible  combinations 
ot  the  pieces  on  a  chessboard. 
Early  efforts,  however,  were 
exercises  in  disguise  rather  than 
artificial  intelligence.  When 
Napoleon  squared  off  against 
a  clanking  mechanical  con- 
traption early  in  the  nineteenth 
century,  the  machine  was  just 
big  enough  to  conceal  a  very 
small,  but  very  good,  human 
chess  player. 

Hearst  is  confident  no  one 
was  hiding  inside  the  1.4-ton 
Deep  Blue,  but  he  emphasizes 
that  the  machine's  calcula- 
tions of  200  million  positions 
per  second  and  its  memory 
incorporating  the  know-how 
of  several  grandmasters  don't 
add  up  to  a  chess  champion. 
"No  computer  can  play  per- 
fect chess,"  he  said.  "It's  too 
complicated  a  game." 

The  real  story  of  Kasparov's 
defeat  bad  more  to  do  with 


psychology  and 
human  physiology 
than  technology,  Hearst  said. 
Since  Kasparov's  title  wasn't  at 
stake,  he  agreed  to  a  grueling 
schedule:  six  games  in  nine 
days  (compared  to  a  maximum 
of  three  games  per  week  in 
human  contests).  The  machine's 
unexpectedly  brilliant  play  in 
game  two  -  which  Hearst 
called  "the  best  game  of  chess 
ever  played  by  a  computer"  - 
so  unsettled  the  fiercely  com- 
petitive Kasparov  that  he 
botched  the  third  game  and 
resigned,  for  the  tirst  time  in 
his  career,  in  what  turned  out 
to  be  a  winnable  position. 

By  the  time  he  got  to  game 
six,  Kasparov  was  exhausted. 
The  final  game  —  dubbed  a 
"crushing  massacre"  and  a 
"blood  bath"  by  the  press  - 
ended  with  another  Kasparov 
resignation  that  baffled  afici- 
onados. "Kasparov  made  a  play 
that  he  had  to  have  known 
was  bad,"  Hearst  said.  "He 
was  so  fatigued  and  upset,  he 
just  didn't  care." 

Even  if  humans  suffered  a 
drubbing  last  spring  at  Big 
Blue's  virtual  hands,  the  match 
offered  some  valuable  lessons, 
Hearst  said:  brute-force  cal- 
culation is  more  important 
than  chess  experts  previously 
believed,  and  IBM  has  made 
substantial  progress  in  model- 
ing human  intelligence.  The 
next  time  a  chess  master 
matches  wits  with  .1  machine, 
however,  Hearst  hopes  the 


project  will  involve  more 
science  and  less  marketing. 
IBM's  stock,  he  noted,  soared 
to  near-record  levels  after  the 
match.  So  far.  Big  Blue  has 
denied  all  requests  for  a  Deep 
Blue  rematch.  -  Chad  Gaits 


The  Morris  Way 

A  fortuer  spin  doctor  speaks 


T: 


HERE  ARE  SOME  CAREERS 

where  everything  you  do 
has  consequences,"  Dick 
Morris  noted  in  his  Novem- 
ber John  Hazen  White  Lecture 
at  the  Salomon  Center  tor 
Teaching.  It  is  a  lesson  Mor- 
ris, chief  strategist  for  Presi- 
dent Clinton's  1996  reelection 
campaign,  learned  the  hard 
way.  When  an  extramarital 
affair  landed  him  on  the  front 
page  of  the  tabloids  last  year, 
he  found  himself  ridiculed 
and  out  of  a  job. 

Rather  than  discussing  the 
sordid  details  of  his  fall  from 
grace,  however,  Morris  used 
the  affair  and  its  press  cover- 
age as  a  springboard  for  tack- 
ling a  broader  theme:  the 
interplay  between  ethics  and 
politics.  "Ethics  is  a  subject 
that's  relatively  new  to  me," 
Morris  admitted  sheepishly, 
to  the  applause  and  laughter 
of  the  audience.  "I  had  always 
asked  myself,  'Will  something 
work?'  and  'Will  I  make 
money?'  But  a  third  question 
to  ask  is, 'Can  I  accomplish 


the  same  objective  by  doing 
the  right  thing?' "  Urging 
Clinton  to  oppose  gay  mar- 
riage, tor  example,  was  a 
politically  expedient  tactic  he 
now  regrets  employing. 

Ultimately,  said  Morris, 
whose  address  was  co- 
sponsored  by  the  Brown  Col- 
lege Democrats,  "it  doesn't 
work  to  be  a  spin  doctor.  In 
an  election,  strategy  is  more 
important  than  tactics,  and 
spinning  is  tactical.  Elections 
are  won  by  changing  the  sub- 
stance of  the  debate,  for  ex- 
ample by  introducing  the  idea 
that  welfare  recipients  should 
work."  The  strategy  Morris 
developed  for  Clinton's  re- 
election campaign  was  simple: 
Clinton  would  present  a  "pos- 
itive message,"  stretch  his  lead 
over  Dole,  and  force  Dole's 
team  to  run  a  negative  ad. 
Clinton  would  then  counter 
with  a  stinging  rebuttal  of  his 
own.  "The  rebuttal  ad  works 
best,"  said  the  savvy  Morris. 
"You  blow  up  the  other  team's 
credibility." 

Resorting  to  negative  ads 
was  but  one  of  the  Dole 
team's  mistakes,  according  to 
Morris.  In  the  1996  election, 
he  claimed.  Dole  was  ped- 
dling the  politics  ot  polariza- 
tion, while  Clinton  recog- 
nized that  America  had 
entered  an  age  of  consensus. 
Americans  all  had  certain 
objectives  in  common,  such 
as  eliminating  the  budget 
deficit  and  social  inequality, 
and  in  1996  they  voted  for 
the  candidate  (Clinton)  who 
made  those  goals  central  to 
his  campaign. 

Morris  pointed  out, 
though,  that  in  trying  to  hold 
onto  the  middle  ground, 
Clinton  often  has  been  in- 
effective. "His  racial  initiatives 
are  baloney,"  Morris  argued, 
"and  he  doesn't  know  what 
step  to  take  next."The  Pres- 
ident, you  could  almost  say, 
has  become  trapped  in  his  own 
spinning.  -  Torn  Still 


[  8    ♦  JANUARY      II   B  R  I  A  R  Y    I  <)  0  8 


Under  the  Elms 


Olympic  Mettle 

Veterans  of  the  games  come 
home 

It  WAS  AN  unusual  Home- 
coming reunion.  A  half- 
century  separated  them  - 
from  rowing  team  old-timer 
John  Welchli  'so,  to  soccer 
youngster  Eli  Abarbanel- 
Wolff  'oo  -  but  when  thirty- 
nine  Brown  Olympians 
gathered  on  campus  in  No- 
vember, the  camaraderie  was 
palpable.  Expressing  a  senti- 
ment for  all  of  them,  Jennifer 
Corbet  '87,  a  member  of  the 
U.S.  women's  crew  team  at 
Barcelona  in  1992,  asserted 
that  competing  in  the  Olym- 
pics "has  given  me  a  strength 
that  I  will  carry  with  me  for 
the  rest  of  mv  lite." 


an  athlete.  But  (Coach)] 
Phoebe  Murphy  taught  me 
I  could  push  myself  to  new 
levels." 

Like  Corbet,  Malcolm 
Baker  '91  arrived  at  Brown  a 
failed  high  school  athlete.  "I 
got  here  hoping  just  to  find 
an  intramural  basketball  team 
to  play  on,"  said  the  six-foot, 
six-inch  Baker.  As  luck  would 
have  it,  a  crew  coach  spotted 
him  in  line  at  registration, 
and  two  years  later  he  was 
rowing  with  the  U.S.  national 
team  at  the  World  Champi- 
onships. At  Barcelona  in  1992, 
he  was  a  member  of  the  U.S. 
eight  that  finished  fourth. 

Former  track  star  Susan 
Smith  '93  found  the  road  to 
the  Olympics  a  bit  rockier. 
Atter  graduating  from  Brown, 
she  suffered  a  debilitating 


Former  Brown  Olympians  Martina  Jerant  '95  (Canadian  basketball), 
Robert  Gaudreau  '66  (U.S.  hockey),  Malcolm  Baker  '91  (U.S.  rowing),  Nikki 
Dryden  '98  (Canadian  swimming),  Jamie  Koven  '95  (U.S.  rowing),  and 
Jennifer  Corbet  '87  (U.S.  rowing). 


Unlike  many  Olympians, 
who  usually  begin  their  cho- 
sen sport  during  childhood, 
Corbet  was  introduced  to 
crew  while  at  the  University. 
"Prior  to  coming  to  Brown," 
she  told  more  than  100  Brown 
students  and  alumni  at  an 
Andrews  Hall  forum,"!  studi- 
ously avoided  gym  class  for 
four  years."  But  once  on 
the  Seekonk  River,  Corbet 
blossomed.  "I  quite  seriously 
doubted  I  could  ever  become 


bone  injury  in  her  right  toot 
that  kept  her  oft  the  track 
for  more  than  two  years.  Two 
surgeries  later,  she  returned  to 
training  and  eventually  shaved 
a  full  three  seconds  oft  her 
personal-best  time  in  the  400- 
meter  hurdles,  qualifying  to 
represent  her  native  Ireland  in 
the  1996  Summer  Olympics. 
I  here  she  smashed  her  own 
Irish  record  in  the  400  hurdles 
for  the  sixth  time  that  year, 
joining  Smith  at  the  1996 


Summer  Olympics  were  fellow 
Brunonians  Martina  Jerant 
'95  (Canadian  women's  basket- 
ball), Jamie  Koven  '95  (U.S. 
rowing), Jim  Pedro  '94  (U.S. 
judo)  and  Porter  Collins  '97 
(U.S.  rowing). "It  was  very 
special  to  be  at  such  a  huge 
event,  with  some  of  the  world's 
greatest  athletes,"  said  Jerant. 
"And  to  see  others  that  I  knew 
and  went  to  school  with 
made  it  all  that  much  better." 
-  Richard  P.  Morin 


Typewriter 
Frontier 

Making  computers  make 
sense 

REMEMBER  TYPEWRITERS? 
They  might  have  been 
slow,  but  unlike  computers, 
they  rarely  suffered  compati- 
bility problems.  In  November 
a  consortium  of  programmers 
and  scholars  who  have,  in 
effect,  been  trying  to  build  a 
better  typewriter  gathered  at 
Brown  to  discuss  the  obstacles 
to  developing  a  universal  com- 
puter language. 

The  weekend's  keynote 
speaker,  Professor  of  Computer 
Science  Andries  van  Dam, 
gave  what  he  called  the  "old 
fart  speech"  on  a  slushy  Friday 
afternoon.  "I  get  to  talk  about 
what  it  was  like  many,  many 
decades  ago,"  he  deadpanned 
to  the  gathering.  "Three,  to 
be  exact." 

When  van  Dam  got  his 
Ph.D.  in  1963,  technology's 
cutting  edge  was  microfilm; 
his  dissertation  was  on  nano- 
fiche.  At  the  time,  he  said,  he 
"still  thought  we  would  never 
be  able  to  store  all  of  human 
knowledge  on  anything  but 
microfilm."  By  1967,  he'd 
changed  his  mind  and  designed 
the  first  interactive,  real-time 
word-processing  program 
designed  specifically  for  use 
by  humanities  scholars.  Uni- 


versity administrators,  van 
Dam  said,  "were  by  no  means 
sure  that  humanities  students 
should  be  tying  up  valuable 
computer  time.  'Let  them  use 
typewriters,'  they  told  me." 


Andries  van  Dam 

Van  Dam's  bold  experi- 
ment opened  the  door  for 
other  computer  scientists  and 
textual  scholars  around  the 
world.  They  began  building 
their  own  systems,  each  insti- 
tution customizing  its  own 
to  suit  its  particular  needs 
and  resources.  Soon  it  became 
apparent,  however,  that  the 
work's  success  depended  on 
the  ability  to  share  results  with 
other  systems.  At  a  1987  meet- 
ing in  Poughkeepsie,  New 
York,  scholars  combined  their 
efforts  to  form  the  Text  En- 
coding Initiative  (TEI),  an 
organization  for  creating  stan- 
dards for  the  computer  en- 
coding of  text.  Since  then,  the 
group  has  produced  a  thick 
volume  of  standards  intended 
to  create  a  common  base  for 
building  compatible  text-based 
systems.  Somewhat  closer  to 
home  for  even  the  most  ama- 
teur Internet  surfers  is  the 
group's  success  in  helping 
create  hypertext  markup  lan- 
guage or  HTML,  the  primary 
encoding  standard  for  the 
World  Wide  Web. 

Van  Dam  warned  the 
gathering  against  the  compla- 
cency that  can  come  with 
success.  Though  computers 
"are  still  literal-minded  repos- 
itories of  information,"  he 
said,  there  are  plenty  of  fron- 
tiers left.  -  Chad  Gaits 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MAGAZINE    ♦    19 


Sports 


BY   PETER   MANDEL 


Sink  or 


Water  polo's  got  it  all. 


tJ 

I  ead  Coach  Erik  Farrar 
JL  JL  '85  has  been  telling  me 
that  "water  polo  is  a  marvelous 
spectator  sport."  You've  got  every- 
thing, he  says:  "strength,  speed,  and 
brutal  physical  contact."  Brown's 
team  also  has  eighteen  Ivy  titles  to 
its  credit.  Year  after  year,  water 
polo  is  one  of  the  University's 
most  successful  men's  teams,  yet 
it's  run  on  a  shoestring  out  of  Far- 
rar's  home.  On  this  wintry,  late- 
October  Saturday,  I'm  going  to 
see  this  swimming  paradox  tor 
myself. 

Today  is  the  opening  ot  the  all-impor- 
tant Northern  Championships  -  the  top 
four  teams  will  go  from  here  to  the  East- 
erns -  but  Farrar  is  nowhere  in  sight,  and 
no  one  seems  entirely  certain  when 
Brown's  first  game,  against  Harvard,  will 
take  place.  Luckily,  I  run  into  a  Brown 
parent,  who  tells  me  to  be  at  the  Smith 
Swim  Center  at  noon.  Next  stop:  the 
sports  information  office,  where  a  dusty 
binder  lists  this  year's  roster. The  players  all 
have  numbers,  and  I'm  hoping  these  will 
be  somehow  visible  (on  bathing  caps? 
suits?  tattooed  on  chests?),  so  I  can  zero  in 
on  the  1996  Ivy  League  Player  of  the  Year, 
Kevin  O'Sullivan  '99,  whom  Farrar  has 
characterized  to  me  as  "a  great  shooter 
and  fast  as  hell." 

At  the  Swim  Center,  only  a  scattering 
of  chlorine-scented  fans  are  waiting  in 
the  poolside  stands,  even  though  the 
Bears  are  16-5  going  into  the  game. 
Where  are  all  the  sports  junkies?  Haven't 
they  heard  that  this  year's  Brown  squad 
has  twice  beaten  nationally  ranked  Uni- 
versity of  Massachusetts,  the  reigning 
Eastern  champs?  Don't  they  realize  these 
guys  are  about  to  play  Harvard,  the  very 
team  Brown  sank  for  the  Ivy  title  in  each 
of  the  past  two  seasons? 

I    join   the   thin    crowd   and   scan    the 


pool.  It  turns  out  that  the  players  do  have 
bathing  caps  of  a  sort,  with  identifying 
numbers.  The  caps  tie  together  under 
chin,  making  even  these  beefy  six-footers 
look  a  little  sheepish.  When  the  whistle 
sounds,  however,  these  sheep  change  into 
wolves  -  or  maybe  killer  whales.  Fresh- 
man Tyler  Korte,  who's  listed  at  210 
pounds,  churns  down  the  right  side  ot  the 
pool  and  rears  out  of  the  water,  holding 
the  ball  menacingly  aloft.  A  flick  of  the 
wrist,  and  it's  past  the  goalie  and  into  the 
Harvard  net. 

In  seconds,  the  Crimson  have  struck 
back  with  an  outside  shot  that  whistles 
beyond  Brown  goalie  Doug  Jetton  '99. 
Jetton  soon  redeems  himself  by  getting  a 
lett  hand  and  then  a  forearm  on  shots  that 
look  like  certain  goals,  but  I'm  getting 
worried.  Harvard  keeps  forming  attacks 
that  end  in  glancing  shots  skimmed  off 
the  water,  while  the  Bears  seem  disorga- 
nized, shooting  only  from  far  outside  and 
unable  to  get  the  ball  under  the  crossbar. 

w 

m /%/    itching  water  polo  takes  some 
▼   T     getting  used  to.  The  refs  wear 
country-club  white,  reminiscent  of  terres- 
trial polo,  but  this  sport  seems  more  like 


basketball.  Instead  of  hoops  and  black- 
boards, the  goals  are  rectangular  and  float- 
ing, but  the  pace  and  energy  are  the  same. 
Passes  and  shots  are  one-handed  Harlem 
Globetrotter  affairs,  and  there  are  pool- 
length  fast  breaks,  the  offense  swimming  a 
mean  crawl  while  the  defense  backstrokes 
to  block  the  passing  lanes.  Much  of  the 
game  is  man-to-man,  though,  like  a  city 
pickup  game.  Defenders  scratch  and  climb 
over  ball  carriers,  almost  sinking  them, 
and  although  whistles  are  constantly 
shrilling,  I  can't  quite  see  where  the 
jostling  ends  and  the  fouling  begins. 

My  attention  snaps  back  to  the  game 
when  Craig  Foisie  '98,  the  only  player 
heavier  than  Korte,  powers  a  goal  in  from 
point-blank  range.  But  look  out:  Harvard 
conies  foaming  back  up  the  pool  again 
and  again,  until  by  the  end  of  the  second 
quarter  the  score  is  2-2.  According  to 
Main'  Korte, Tyler's  dad,  who's  here  from 
St.  Louis,  "Harvard's  playing  great  so  tar, 
and  we're  just  not  in  synch."  Harvard  par- 
ent Jon  Bar-Ziv  ot  Tel-Aviv,  Israel,  leans 
over  to  me  with  a  mischievous  smile. 
"Brown."  he  says  in  carefully  lowered 
tones,  "they're  making  foolish  mistakes." 

As  the  third  quarter  begins,  I'm  trou- 
bled less  by  Brown  mistakes  than  by  the 
invisibility    of    Kevin    O'Sullivan.    He's 


I  A  \  I    A  R  V      I   I    UK  I    A  IM       ]  ')  c;  8 


Coach  Farrar  discusses  strategy  with  his  team 
during  a  timeout.  Back  in  the  water,  the  team 
executes,  narrowly  defeating  Harvard  before 
a  mere  handful  of  spectators. 


barely  touched  the  ball.  Harvard  picks  up 
where  it  left  off  in  the  second  quarter, 
jumping  ahead  to  a  3—2  lead. Then  late  in 
the  third  quarter,  momentum,  that  elusive 
and  fickJe  presence,  begins  to  shift.  Brown 
goes  to  Foisie,  its  big  guy,  right  in  front  of 
the  goal.  Foisie  treads  water,  looking  for 
the  open  man.  "That's  our  whole  strat- 
egy," Korte  confides  to  me,  "to  get  the 
ball  into  the  middle  and  pull  the  defense 
in  there  so  a  man  can  get  free."  Korte's 
right.  Foisie  creates  exactly  this  situation 
and  throws  the  ball  out  to  Jamie  Litten 
'01,  who  ties  the  game  with  a  long  out- 
side shot. 

On  it  goes.  With  about  four  minutes 
left  to  play.  Brown  wrestles  the  game 
definitively  away  from  its  opponent. 
Foisie  scores  from  the  inside  to  put  the 
Bears  ahead.  Then  John  Bowlus  '00 
receives  a  pass  and  tallies  from  the  left 
corner  like  a  waterlogged  Bill  Bradley. 
Later,  O'Sullivan  finally  gets  into  the 
swim  of  things.  Finding  a  loose  ball  out  in 


front  of  the  goal,  he  slams  it  home  for  a 
6-3  lead  that  gives  the  Bears  all  the  mar- 
gin they  need. 

The  final  score  is  7—5.  As  expected. 
Brown  moves  into  the  tournament's  sec- 
ond round  and,  ultimately,  on  to  the  East- 
ern Championships.  When  I  pass  Coach 
Farrar  a  few  minutes  after  the  game,  I  can 
tell  from  his  face  that  he'd  been  sweating 
this  one  out.  "Great  spectator  sport,"  I  tell 
him.  "You  were  right." 

Farrar  tucks  a  clipboard  under  his 
arm,  wipes  his  brow,  and  heads  down  the 
hall  toward  the  locker  room.  "It  was  a 
good  one,"  he  calls  back.  "But  that's  just 
the  kind  of  excitement  we  don't  need." 

Postscript:  In  mid-November,  Brown  finished 
third  at  the  Eastern  Championships  in 
Annapolis,  Maryland. 


Rivals:  An 
Informal  Survey 

///  sports,  Harvard  is  to  Yale  as 
Brown  is  to  whom?? 

LJ 

1  I  arvard,  ot  course,  hates  Yale. 
JL  JL  Cornel]  would  rather  thrash 
Penn  than  anyone.  And  Amherst  and 
Williams  have  been  at  it  like  dogs  and  cats 
for  a  century.  But  ever  since  Brown  and 
Pembroke  began  squaring  off  against  rival 
colleges,  alumni,  players,  and  coaches  have 
been  scratching  their  heads  about  which 
Ivy  team  is  the  enemy  among  enemies. 


"Normally,  a  school's  football 
schedule  can  be  a  tip-off  to  its 
biggest  rivals,"  says  Malcolm 
Moran,  who  covers  college  sports 
for  the  New  York  Times.  "But  if 
you  look  at  Brown's  last  two 
games  of  the  year,  usually  Dart- 
mouth, I  think,  and  Columbia, 
you  don't  find  too  much  deep- 
seated  animosity  there." 
JL  If  scheduling  holds  no  clues 

to    Brown's    ultimate    foe,    what 
does?  Are  bitter  rivalries  built  out 
ot    years    ot    playing    the    same 
schools    -    no    matter    what    the 
outcome  -  or  out  of  a  string  of 
recent      close      games     between 
teams    of  similar   talents?    For   a 
soccer  game  to  be  seen  as  the  bat- 
tle of  Armageddon,  must  the  Bears  be  up 
against  the  very  same  school  that  spells 
all-out  war  in  football? 

Leyla  Goldsmith  '98,  women's  volley- 
ball co-captain,  seems  puzzled  by  the 
speculation.  "Arch-rival?"  she  asks. 
"Nowadays,  it  sort  of  varies  from  sport  to 
sport.  I'd  be  tempted  to  say  Harvard,  but  if 
they  didn't  have  a  good  volleyball  team 
this  year,  I'm  not  sure  we'd  care  as  much  as 
we  do."  On  the  other  hand,  Jackie  Court, 
the  coach  ot  women's  gymnastics  since 
1969,  believes  that  her  teams  focus  on  Yale 
more  than  on  any  other  rival.  "There's 
always  some  extra  tension,  whether  we're 
in  New  Haven  or  Providence,"  she  says, 
"and  I  guess  that's  because  they've  won 
the  Ivy  Championship  so  many  times." 
Pausing  a  second,  she  quickly  adds:  "But 
it's  a  friendly  animosity." 

John  Eng-Wong  '62,  the  University's 
director  of  foreign  students,  faculty,  and 
staff  services  and  a  longtime  sports  afi- 
cionado, agrees.  He  remembers  that  in  his 
student  days  good  Harvard  and  Yale  teams 
made  Brown  tans  jealous  more  often  than 
mad.  "It  wasn't  blood  hatred,"  he  recalls. 
"Archenemies  come  from  prehistoric 
memories.  They're  embedded  in  your 
neurons.  Brown  versus  Harvard  has  never 
felt  like  that."  Donald  Carswell  (Harvard 
'so),  the  former  chief  hockey  negotiator 
for  NBC  sports,  says  that  playing  Brown 
never  generated  much  feeling  in  Cam- 
bridge. Carswell  remembers  the  sense  that 
"Brown  thought  it  was  as  good  as  Har- 
vard, and  if  they  could  beat  us,  that  might 
prove  it."  To  Crimson  fans,  he  bluntly 
continues,  "It  was  a  David-and-Goliath 
situation.  Harvard  and  Yale  always  looked 
at  Brown  as  the  kid  with  the  slingshot." 

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further  back.  Way  back.  H.  Cushman 
"Gus"  Anthony  '26  remembers  that 
"Dartmouth  was  the  really  big  football 
game  back  then,"  dashing  cold  water  on 
Malcolm  Moran's  assessment  of  this  par- 
ticular matchup.  "I'm  not  sure  why,"  he 
adds.  "It  was  just  a  pulse  you  got." 

Later  alumni  got  the  pulse  at  the 
annual  football  game  against  Colgate.  The 
late  BAM  Associate  Editor  Jay  Barry  '50, 
coauthor  of  .-4  Tale  of  Two  Centuries:  A 
Warm  and  Richly  Pictorial  History  of  Brown 
University,  1764-igS},  would  often  talk 
about  growing  up  in  Warren,  Rhode 
Island,  in  the  1930s  and  1940s  and  antici- 
pating the  "ultimate  football  game" 
against  Colgate  on  Thanksgiving  morn- 
ing. "You'd  be  good  and  cold  from  hang- 
ing on  every  play,"  Barry  once  told 
Robert  Rhodes,  former  editor  of  the 
Brown  Alumni  Monthly.  "And  then  you'd 
go  in  by  the  tire  and  have  an  enormous 
turkey  dinner.  We  would  rehash  the  big 
plays  over  and  over  if  the  Bears  had  won. 
That,  I  always  thought,  was  heaven." 


New  Football  Coach 

After  four  years  and  a  23-13  record,  Mark 
Whipple  '79  resigned  as  head  football 
coach  after  the  1997  season.  Known  for 
his  aggressive  "Whip-Lash"  offense, 
Whipple  leaves  behind  a  Brown  record 
book  almost  entirely  rewritten  by  his 
players.  In  1997  alone,  the  Bears  set  Ivy 
League  and  Brown  records  for  total 
offense,  averaging  474  yards  a  game,  while 
wide  receiver  Sean  Morey  '99,  averaging 
143  yards  a  game,  led  the  country  in 
receiving  and  was  named  Ivy  League 
Player  of  the  Year. 

Whipple  will  be  replaced  by  Phil 
Estes,  who  worked  closely  with  Morey 
last  season  as  receivers  coach.  He  was  run- 
ning back  coach  for  three  years  before 
that  and  has  been  Brown's  recruiting 
coordinator  since  arriving  at  the  Univer- 
sity in  1994.  "My  job,"  Estes  said  in  a  press 
release,  "is  to  take  the  Brown  football 
team  to  the  next  level  -  the  Ivy  League 
Championship."  c^> 


SCOREBOARD 


(as  of  December  2) 


Men's  Cross  Country 


3-0 


Field  Hockey 


7-10 


After  capturing  the  New  England 
Championship,  the  harriers  finished  a 
disappointing  fourth  at  the  Heptagonals 
in  New  York  City. 

Women's  Cross  Country  2-0 

Junior  Meghan  Moriarty  and  senior 
Emily  Grossman  earned  second-team 
All  Ivy  honors  as  Brown  finished  in 
fifth  place  at  the  Heptagonals. 


Kate  Sullivan  'y8  was  a  bright  spot  for 
the  Bears,  trying  the  Brown  record  for 
goals  in  a  season  with  her  twelfth  in  the 
team's  2-0  win  over  Holy  Cross  in 
October. 


Women's  Tennis 


1-3 


Football 


6-4 


Thanks  to  the  record-shattering  offense 
of  receiver  Sean  Morey  '99  and  quarter- 
back James  Perry  '00,  the  Bears  followed 
up  losses  to  Harvard  and  Dartmouth 
with  a  42-11  drubbing  of  Columbia. 


Saranga  Sangakkara  '99  notched  perhaps 
the  biggest  win  in  the  history  of  Brown 
women's  tennis  by  upsetting  the  nations 
seventh-ranked  player  at  the  Rolex  ITA 
Eastern  Women's  Championship. 

Volleyball  14-17 


Men's  Soccer 


11-5-1 


The  team's  only  senior,  Leyla  Gold- 
smith, became  Brown's  all-time  career 
kill  leader  and  then  swatted  kill  number 
1,000  versus  Yale. 


After  a  mediocre  early  season,  the  Bears 
ran  otTan  eight-game  unbeaten  streak 
that  culminated  in  an  overtime  win  over 
Dartmouth  for  the  Ivy  title.  Brown 
advanced  to  the  NCAAs,  where  it  was 
stopped  by  St.  John's. 


Water  Polo 


22-9 


Another  stellar  season:  an  Ivy  title  and  .1 
fourth-place  finish  in  the  ECAC  Cham- 
pionships. 

Equestrian 


Women's  Soccer 


7-10 


Senior  co-captain  Amy  Broadhead's 
chip  shot  over  a  charging  goaltender  led 
to  a  dramatic  1-0  win  over  Providence 
College  in  November. 


The  team  closed  only  its  second  season 
by  winning  its  first  competition  ever  on 
November  X.  Brown  finished  the  year 
ranked  third  in  the  region,  behind 
Stonehill  College  and  the  University  ot 
Connecticut. 


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Studentside 


BY   SUZANNE  CLARK     99 


52001 

A  postal  carrier  who 
delivers  more  than  mail. 


It  is  2:30  on  a  stifling  July  afternoon. 
Only  twelve  blocks  to  go.  With  one 
foot  in  the  truck  and  one  on  the  side- 
walk, I  balance  a  foot-high  pile  of  maga- 
zines on  the  back  of  my  forearm,  wedge 
two  stacks  of  letters  into  my  left  hand,  and 
jam  a  twenty-pound  package  into  the 
folds  of  a  blue  mail  bag.  I  swing  the  bag 
over  my  right  shoulder  and  glance  down 
the  block.  Two  dogs  are  out,  Mr.  Putnam 
is  mowing  his  lawn,  and  Mrs.  Steines's 
kids  are  playing  in  the  street.  Looks  like 
a  typical  day  on  the  route. 

For  the  past  three  summers  I've  deliv- 
ered mail  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  52001.  My 
father  has  worked  as  a  post-office  clerk  in 
Dubuque  for  more  than  nineteen  years, 
so  when  I  first  took  the  job  of  "casual 
employee"  -  a  federally  funded  work- 
study  job  for  college  students  -  I  thought 
I  knew  what  to  expect.  But  I  didn't  know 
how  tired  I'd  be  after  eight  hours  of 
walking  up  and  down  stairs  while  hauling 
everything  from  Sears  catalogs  to  tele- 
phone bills.  I  didn't  realize  how  lost  I 
could  get  in  my  own  hometown,  or  how 
people  set  their  clocks  by  the  arrival  of 
their  mail  carriers. 

"You're  late!"  one  man  declared  as  I 
approached  his  house. 

"Sorry,  sir,"  I  mumbled,  handing  over 
a  stack  of  letters.  "What  time  does  your 
regular  carrier  usually  come?" 

"She's  here  and  gone  by  2:20,"  he 
muttered  before  slamming  the  door.  I 
checked  my  watch.  It  was  2:35. 

Despite  my  slowness  at  the  beginning 
of  the  summer,  the  other  mail  carriers  - 
Dubuque  has  about  sixty-five  -  wel- 
comed me.  Many  of  them  were  not  what 
you'd  expect.  Although  a  few  guys  would 
ask  me  where  the  pictures  were  when 
they  saw  me  tackling  Anna  Karenina  on  a 


I'AHUL    VID1NGHUH 


break,  many  carriers  also  read  in  their 
mail  trucks  during  lunch.  There  was  a 
poetry  club  that  met  weekly,  and  once,  as 
I  returned  to  the  office,  I  overheard  one 
carrier  ask  another,  "How  many  syllables 
are  in  a  haiku?  It's  been  driving  me  nuts 
all  day." 

By  the  time  I  returned  for  my  third 
summer  at  the  post  office,  I  thought 
I'd  learned  all  there  was  about  the  job. 
Wrong.  As  I  raised  my  head  from  my 
burden  of  mail  and  really  looked  at  the 
people  on  my  routes,  I  realized  there's 
more  to  being  a  postal  carrier  than  get- 
ting to  a  mailbox  on  time.  One  day,  as  I 
delivered  mail  to  the  last  few  blocks  of 
a  new  route,  I  approached  a  small  house 
with  pink  roses  growing  around  the  front 
porch.  I  greeted  the  elderly  woman  sitting 
there  and  handed  over  a  bank  statement. 
She  looked  at  it  closely,  reading  the  two 
names  on  the  envelope  out  loud.  "Yes, 
that's  me,  "  she  said  slowly.  "J-u-lie,  that's 
my  daughter.  Julie  works  at  a  bank.  I  have 
four  daughters,  all  moved  away.  Julie's  the 
second;  she  works  at  a  bank."  Her  voice 
trailed  off. 

"Pretty  hot  out,  isn't  it?"  I  asked. 
"Hot?  Yes,  hot,  my  poor  roses,  my 
mother's  roses,  not  as  pretty  in  the  heat." 
she  replied.  We  talked  a  few  minutes 
more  before  I  began  to  inch  awav  "Wait, 


dear,"  she  said.  "Thank  you  for  talking  to 
me.  It  gets  so  lonely.  Here,  take  some  roses 
home  with  you." 

Other  carriers  have  told  me  similar 
stories.  Some  have  known  their  customers 
for  decades.  "Tell  Jerry  I  said  hi,"  a  carrier 
would  instruct  me  before  I  started  out  in 
the  morning;  or  "Take  the  mail  inside  for 
Mr.  Gordon;  he's  got  a  broken  leg." 
Although  we  were  always  pressured  to 
finish  the  route  quickly,  we  were  also 
encouraged  to  keep  an  eye  on  the  neigh- 
borhood. Carriers  watch  out  for  children, 
make  sure  strangers  aren't  lurking  about, 
and  worry  when  mail  isn't  collected  for 
an  extended  period.  Delivering  mail  is  a 
carrier's  first  priority,  but  the  job  requires 
much  more. 

In  Dubuque  friends  praise  me  for  lay- 
ing the  groundwork  tor  a  postal  career. 
Yet  some  people  at  Brown  scoff  at  such  a 
prospect,  calling  it  a  waste  of  an  education. 
Even  though  I  hope  to  work  in  a  field 
related  to  my  biology  concentration,  I  con- 
sider my  experience  at  the  post  office  in- 
valuable. Postal  workers  make  a  visible  con- 
tribution to  society  and  have  every  right 
to  take  pride  in  their  work.  I  would  never 
be  ashamed  to  rejoin  their  ranks.  c\^> 

During  the  academic  year,  Suzanne  Clark 
delivers  mail  joy  the  Brown  News  Bureau. 


UK  OWN     ALUMNI     MONTHLY 


In  Class 


On  the  first  day  of  her  small 
seminar  on  aging,  Associ- 
ate Professor  Ann  Dill  asks  students 
why  they're  in  her  class.  Many  pro- 
fessors assume  that  their  commit- 
ment to  the  material  is  proof 
enough  of  its  usefulness,  but  Dill 
likes  to  give  her  course  a  personal 
touch.  She  has  taught  Sociology 
141.  Aging  and  the  Quality  of  Life, 
enough  times  to  know  that  her  question 
will  open  a  vein:  even  nineteen-  and 
twenty-year-olds  are  afraid  of  getting  old. 
"The  first  day  of  class  was  like  a  sup- 
port group,"  says  Sarah  Babineau  '98,  a 
math  concentrator  from  southern  New 
Hampshire.  "It  was  like,  'Hi,  my  name's 
Sarah,  and  I'm  afraid  of  aging.'"  The  ex- 
ercise brings  to  the  surface  the  dominant 
cultural  assumptions  about  growing  old. 
If  we  are  to  believe  what  we  see  in  televi- 
sion ads,  for  example,  the  aging  process  will 
eventually  transform  healthy.  Mountain 
Dew-guzzling  snowboarders  into  putter- 
nig  retirees  who  split  their  tune  between 
dabbling  at  hobbies  and  choosing  the 
right  dietary  supplement.  1  )ill  designed  the 
course  to  give  her  students,  most  of 
whom  are  premed,  a  more  sophisticated 
understanding  of  aging.  1  )espite  inevitable 


Old  people  are  usually  depicted  as  either  feeble     other  type  of  patient,  and  now  is 

,     .  ,  .  ,  .    .-  ,,.,  ,  the     time     to     understand     their 

ana  sick  or  wise  ana  infallible. 


This  course  tries  to  get  beyond  the  cliches. 


BY   CHAD   GALTS 

declines  in  health,  she  teaches,  old  people 
aren't  always  sick  people.  Their  catalogs  of 
memory  and  experience  should  afford 
them  special  status,  not  dreary  cubicles  in 
forlorn  nursing  homes. 

Dill's  class  combines  a  heavy  reading 
load  with  on-site  interviews  at  a  local 
nursing  home.  Students  read  from  such 
works  as  The  Fountain  of  Age,  by  Betty 
Friedan,  and  Worlds  of  Difference:  Inequality 
in  the  Aging  Experience,  an  anthology  that 
analyzes  the  literary,  sociological,  economic, 
and  scientific  facets  of  growing  old.  With 
their  minds  spinning  with  fresh  ideas. 
Dill's  students  leave  the  classroom  for  the 
nursing  home,  where  they  interview  resi- 
dents about  the  quality  of  their  lives. 
Often  these  interviews  lead  to  regular, 
voluntary  visits.  When  they  finally  be- 
come doctors.  I  )ill  savs,  the  students  will 
likely    sec    more    older   people    than    any 


humanity    and    depth.    "Professor 
Dill    likes    to    have    empirical    ex- 
perience mixed  with  the  material 
of  the   course,"  says  Bart  Kenney 
'99,  a  premed  sociology  concentra- 
tor from  Baltimore.  Even  for  stu- 
dents  who   will   not   go   into   the 
medical  profession.  Dill  adds,  the  subject 
is  worth  taking  up.  Old  age  isn't  exactly 
an  exclusive  club:  birthdays  happen. 


s 


itting  around  a  conference  table  111 
a  quiet  room  on  a  lower  level  of 
the  Rockefeller  Library,  Dill  and  her  eight 
students  speak  with  disarming  familiarity: 
even  though  it's  midsemester.  the  class 
hasn't  lost  its  group-therapy  feel.  The 
week's  reading  is  from  Friedan.  "She  says 
we're  too  focused  on  the  medical  model  - 
looking  for  diseases,  then  finding  the  cures 
for  these  diseases."  Dill  says.  Dill  wants  to 
raise  a  question  in  her  students'  minds: 
Older  people  spend  more  time  in  hospi- 
tals and  are  more  frequently  subjected  to 
complicated,  sometimes  traumatic  proce- 
dures. [  low  should  this  affect  their  care? 


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"Well,"  she  asks,  "what  do  you  think?" 

Dill  rarely  lectures.  She  prefers  to 
blend  her  voice  with  those  of  her  stu- 
dents, guiding  them  into  the  readings  but 
not  forcing  the  discussion  along  an  inflex- 
ible path.  It  works.  Soon  her  students  are 
volleying  ideas  back  and  forth  across  the 
table.  Maintaining  the  quality  of  everyday 
life  should  come  first,  one  of  them  sug- 
gests; getting  old  is  not  a  disease.  Another 
student  offers  that  "the  health-care  sys- 
tem," not  physicians,  is  at  fault  for  the 
shabby  treatment  of  the  elderly:  a  one- 


the  functional  health  of  older  people.  Stu- 
dents spent  the  semester  investigating 
which  health  issues  are  most  problematic 
for  this  age  group,  evaluating  the  best 
methods  of  caring  for  them,  and  assessing 
the  efficiency  of  nursing  homes.  "I  was 
encouraged  to  make  it  more  of  an  over- 
view of  the  field,"  Dill  says. 

Early  on  she  kept  the  course  close  to 
its  technical  origins,  but  over  time  it  has 
drifted  into  what  she  calls,  for  lack  of  a 
better  word,  more  "humanistic"  territory. 
"I'm  sometimes  concerned  that  I'm  not 


Ann  Dill's  great-aunt,  who  in  her  mid-nineties 
still  smokes,  drinks,  and  manages  a  cattle  ranch, 
had  a  major  impact  on  Dill's  scholarship. 


size-tits-all  approach  won't  work. 

Victoria  Brooks  '98  joins  the  discus- 
sion. "When  my  father  was  in  the  hospital 
with  cancer  last  year,"  she  says,  "my  mom 
was  reading  up  on  all  these  new  treat- 
ments and  bringing  stuff  in  for  the  doctor 
to  look  at."  The  class  becomes  quiet. They 
know  Brooks's  father  died  in  March;  she 
has  talked  about  it  in  class  before  in  the 
same  calm,  earnest  voice.  "The  doctor 
would  just  sort  of  roll  his  eyes  -  you 
could  tell  he  was  thinking,  'Who  are  you 
to  be  telling  me  this  stuff?"  " 

After  a  short  pause  Dill  speaks  softly. 
"There's  no  question  we  need  to  be  more 
aggressive  consumers  of  health  care,  but 
we  need  to  talk  about  alternatives.  It  we 
stick  to  the  disease  model  of  health  care, 
what's  being  left  out?"  Her  voice  is  sin- 
cere and  concerned,  but  the  professor  in 
Dill  is  trying  to  steer  the  discussion  back 
to  the  readings.  She  continues;  "Nursing 
homes  are  too  often  thought  of  as  places 
where  people  go  to  die.  If  there's  too 
much  emphasis  on  diagnosis  -  on  seeing  old 
people  as  sick  people  —  then  there's  not 
enough  emphasis  on  prevention. 

"You  were  nodding,"  she  says  to 
another  student. "What  part  of  that  do  you 
agree  with?" 

Dill,  who  came  to  Brown  in  1988, 
inherited  Aging  and  the  Quality 
of  Life  from  the  Department  of  Commu- 
nity Health.  In  its  previous  incarnation, 
Dill  says,  the  course  was  primarily  con- 
cerned with   quantifying  and   measuring 


giving  students  enough  of  the  bench  sci- 
ence of  gerontology,"  she  admits.  "But 
much  of  the  material  in  this  course  calls 
for  you  to  connect  with  it  on  a  personal 
level."  She  adds  that  her  own  professional 
interest  has  shitted:  "I  am  becoming  more 
concerned  with  the  actual  lived  experi- 
ences of  older  people." 

This  interest,  Dill  says,  started  at  home. 
The  woman  for  whom  she  was  named  -  a 
great-aunt  who,  now  in  her  mid-nineties, 
still  smokes,  drinks,  and  manages  a  2 so- 
head  cattle  ranch  in  Missouri  -  is  but  one 
of  the  many  older  relatives  who  have  had 
a  major  impact  on  Dill's  view  of  getting 
old.  In  a  population-studies  course  she 
took  in  graduate  school  at  Columbia,  Dill 
was  told  to  interview  someone  from 
another  culture  about  her  childbearing 
experience.  "My  great-aunt  spent  her 
childbearing  years  in  the  Midwest  around 
the  turn  of  the  century,"  Dill  explains. 
"Back  then,  you  didn't  admit  your  preg- 
nancy. You  still  had  to  engage  in  all  the 
activities  of  farming."  The  interviews 
yielded  more  than  just  good  data  on  what 
it's  like  to  bear  children,  however.  "I  real- 
ized how  much  she  could  teach  me  about 
our  heritage,"  Dill  says.  "She  was  one  of 
these  sharp-as-a-tack  people." 

1  )ill  followed  her  interest  in  aging 
throughout  graduate  school,  eventually 
writing  a  dissertation  on  a  program  that 
"provided  home  care  to  so-called  frail 
elderly  people."  she  says.  When  she  came  to 
Brown,  her  work  in  organizational  studies 
and  in  the  sociology  of  aging  caught 
the  attention  of  Mary  Hazeltine  (who  is 
married  to  engineering  professor  Barrett 


Hazeltine).  Mary  was  so  impressed  with 
Dill's  approach  she  asked  her  to  join  the 
board  of  Tockwotton,  a  Providence  nurs- 
ing home."Tockwotton  was  established  in 
1856,"  Dill  explains,  "by  a  group  of  Baptist 
women  who  were  concerned  about  the 
lack  of  options  available  to  aged  women 
who  had  accrued  some  resources."  As  a 
result,  for  much  of  its  history  Tockwotton 
maintained  strict  admission  requirements 
and  remained  a  home  for  "genteel  ladies" 
of  at  least  modest  means.  Not  anymore. 
Dill,  who  is  now  president  of  Tockwot- 
ton's  board,  helped  see  to  it  that  the  sixty- 
six-bed  facility  increased  its  number  of 
assisted-living  units.  She  is  now  trying  to 
raise  money  to  enable  Tockwotton  to 
serve  residents  with  a  wider  range  of 
incomes. The  home  now  also  admits  men. 
Dill's  students  probably  won't  conquer 
their  fear  of  aging  by  semester's  end,  but 
she  hopes  the  course  will  help  them 
become  more  aware  of  issues  they  are  a 
few  years  away  from  having  to  face  them- 
selves. "I  view  the  course  as  a  kind  of 
inoculation,"  she  says. "It  won't  take  much 
to  expose  them  to  the  downsides  of 
aging.  Absent  a  course  like  this,  they 
might  not  be  exposed  to  the  gifts  older 
people  possess.  Older  people  have  social 
worth  to  their  families  and  to  their  com- 
munities -  there  are  many  possibilities  for 
ongoing,  creative  growth."  c^> 


SYLLABUS 


For  further  reading: 

How  Old  Arc  Yen?:  Age  Consciousness 
in  American  Culture  by  (Brown  Profes- 
sor of  History)  Howard  P.  ChudacotT 
(Princeton  University  Press,  1989) 

The  Fountain  of  Age  by  Betty  Friedan 
(Simon  &  Schuster,  1993) 

Number  Out  Days  by  Barbara  MyerhotT 
(Dutton,  1978) 

Yon  're  Only  Old  Once!  by  Dr.  Seuss 
(Random  House,  1986) 

World  of  Difference:  Inequality  in  the 
Aging  Experience  by  Eleanor  Palo 
Stoller  and  Rose  Campbell  Gibson 
(Pine  Forge  Press,  1997) 

City  of  Green  Benches:  (Ironing  Old  in 
a  New  Downtown  by  Maria  D.Vesperi; 
photographs  by  Ricardo  Ferro  (Cor- 
nell University  Press,  [985) 


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Mutual  Contempt:  Lyndon  Johnson,  Robert 
Kennedy,  and  the  Fend  Tltat  Defined  a  Decade 
by  Jeff  Shesol  '91    (W.W.  Norton,  syi 

pages,  $32.: so). 

By  Stephen  Fox  '71  Ph.D. 

Our  political  stories  seldom  reach 
the  level  ot  great  tragedy  because 
the  players  -  especially  in  recent  decades 
-  have  seemed  too  small.  Richard  Nixon 
or  Jimmy  Carter  as  tragic  heroes?  Their 
troubles  and  ultimate  defeats  assumed  no 
truly  tragic  dimensions  because  the  men 
themselves  had  no  compensating  great- 
ness, no  grandeur  of  character  or  inten- 
tion to  make  their  ambitions  more  than 
those  of  any  political  hack.  Even  the 
major  crises  of  their  presidencies  seem 
diminished  by  the  petty  operatives,  the 
Ron  Zieglers  and  Hamilton  Jordans,  flit- 
ting through  the  Oval  Office  at  the  time. 
But  in  Lyndon  Johnson  and  Robert 
Kennedy,  and  the  tumultuous  issues  and 
choices  of  the  1960s,  we  have  the  stuff 
of  real  tragedy.  Reading  this  book  is  like 
re-reading  a  familiar  murderous  classic 
of  Greek  or  Shakespearean  drama.  We 
already  know  the  final  outcome,  in  the 


startling  and  terrible  events  of  the  spring 
of  1968,  but  a  malign  curiosity  pulls  us 
on.  In  the  background,  at  recurrent  twists 
of  the  plot,  the  question  of  whether  the 
story  could  somehow  have  turned  out 
differently  still  dangles.  It  becomes  a  grave 
meditation  on  the  role  of  personality  in 
history. 

Mutual  Contempt  marks  an  impressive 
literary  debut  by  Jeff  Shesol  '91,  best 
known  heretofore  as  the  creator  of  the 
Gen-X  comic  strip  Thatch.  The  book 
began  as  a  Brown  senior  thesis  supervised 
by  James  T  Patterson  of  the  history  de- 
partment. In  the  years  since,  Shesol  has 
made  full  use  ot  the  vast  collections  of 
tapes,  papers,  and  oral  histories  at  the 
Kennedy  and  Johnson  presidential  librar- 
ies. Doing  justice  to  this  legwork,  Shesol 
has  written  his  book  with  a  deft  sense  of 
pacing  and  story  and  (for  the  most  part)  a 
precise,  economical  sense  of  language.  On 
occasion  Shesol,  perhaps  transported  by 
the  largeness  of  his  themes  and  players, 
slides  into  overstatement.  Bobby  Ken- 
nedy's Justice  Department  did  not  really 
harbor  "the  sharpest  lawyers  of  his  gener- 
ation" (the  Republicans,  after  all,  had 
some  sharp  lawyers  too),  and  even  Daniel 
Patrick   Moynihan    would   probably    not 


For  three  years  Jeff  Shesol  divided  seven-day  workweeks 
between  Mutual  Contempt  and  Thatch,  his  nationally  syndi- 
cated political  comic  strip.  "I  had  one  looming  deadline  for  the 
book  and  two  a  week  for  the  strip,"  says  the  former  Rhodes 
scholar.  "I  think  I  was  energized  by  having  these  two  kinds  of 
discrete  jobs.  Being  at  that  constant  level  of  creative  output 
was  good  for  everything  I  did."  Apparently  so.  The  twenty-eight-year-old's  book, 
which  started  as  a  senior  thesis  under  the  direction  of  Professor  of  History  James 
Patterson,  has  received  glowing  reviews  in  the  New  York  Times,  the  Washington 
Post,  The  New  York  Review  of  Books,  and  elsewhere.  While  thankful  for  the  praise, 
Shesol  is  quick  to  acknowledge  the  importance  of  Patterson's  input.  "When  he  saw 
the  proposal  in  1990,"  Shesol  says,  "I  think  he  was  a  little  wary  -  everybody  wants 
to  write  about  the  Kennedys."  Once  the  project  was  under  way,  however,  Patterson 
"went  above  and  beyond  the  call  of  duty  for  a  thesis  adviser."  -  Chad  Gaits 


MUTUAL 
CONTEMPT 


describe  himself  as  "unerringly  brilliant." 
But  these  are  minor  flaws  of  enthusiasm 
in  a  bravura  performance. 

Picking  his  way  though  a  historio- 
graphic  field  littered  with  the  work  of 
partisans  and  court  historians,  Shesol  is 
remarkably  balanced  and  fair  to  both  pro- 
tagonists. Perhaps  too  fair:  the  author  pre- 
sents Johnson  and  Kennedy  as  essentially 
good  men,  with  similar  idealisms  and 
sympathies  for  the  disadvantaged,  who 
were  undone  by  their  private  vendetta. 
Shesol  thus  does  not  fully  appreciate  the 
selfish,  darker  strains  in  both  figures.  In 
explaining  Bobby's  background  and  per- 
sonality, for  example,  Shesol  gives  insuffi- 
cient attention  to  his  father,  old  Joe,  the 
most  sinister  (and  interesting)  of  all  the 
Kennedys.  Joseph  P.  Kennedy  relentlessly 
masterminded  the  careers  of  all  his  kids. 
Of  the  three  surviving  sons,  Bobby  most 
resembled  the  old  man  in  his  instincts  and 
prejudices. 

Joe  Kennedy  does  appear  in  this  book, 
but  his  role  is  reduced.  Shesol  notes  that 
Johnson,  as  Senate  majority  leader  in 
1957,  gave  John  Kennedy  the  coveted  seat 
he  wanted  on  the  Foreign  Relations 
Committee.  Shesol  does  not  mention 
that,  according  to  Johnson's  later  recollec- 
tion, he  did  so  because  of  the  irresistible 
lobbying  and  promised  favors  of  Joe 
Kennedy.  (On  this  point,  see  Doris  Kearns 
Goodwin's  book  The  Fitzgeralds  and  the 
Kennedys,  an  important  source  -  based  on 
exclusive  access  to  the  papers  of  Joe  and 
Rose  Kennedy  -  that  escaped  Shesol's 
otherwise  exhaustive  research.) 

Some  of  Mutual  Contempt's  most  vivid 
passages  are  drawn  from  recently  released 
audiotapes  of  Oval  Office  conversations 
and  phone  calls.  Contemporary  historians 
often  lament  the  demise  of  letter-writing 
as  a  reduction  of  the  available  historical 
record.  To  some  extent,  these  secret  White 
House  tapes  may  compensate  tor  missing 


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private  letters.  A  confidential  letter, 
though,  has  the  singular  advantage  of  can- 
dor and  intimacy  on  both  sides  of  the 
exchange.  For  the  White  House  tapes, 
usually  only  the  president  and  his  inner 
circle  knew  of  the  recording  while  others 
in  the  room,  or  on  the  phone,  did  not. 
The  result  is  an  unbalanced  intimacy  in 
which  the  president,  knowing  he  is 
speaking  tor  the  ages,  fashions  his  remarks 
accordingly,  while  all  others  think  they 
are  speaking  in  private.  In  a  telling  aside, 
Shesol  notes  that  Bobby,  at  a  White 
House  meeting  in  the  summer  of  1964, 
saw  that  a  speakerphone  was  set  to  record 
the  occasion  —  and  therefore  did  not 
speak  candidly.  In  general,  the  tapes 
quoted  by  Shesol  provide  a  bracing 
immediacy  and  drama  but  do  not  alter 
our  essential  sense  ot  what  happened. 

The  whole  story  has  never  before 
been  told  so  well,  in  such  detail,  and  with 
such  authority.  To  understand  the  tangled 
relations  of  LBJ  and  RFK,  Shesol  empha- 
sizes their  immense  differences  in  person- 
ality and  background,  and  then  details 
the  issues  —  especially  the  wars  on  Viet- 
nam and  poverty  —  that  came  to  divide 
them.  To  these  factors  I  would  add  the 
cumulative  effect  of  events  themselves:  in 
i960,  Johnson  insulting  Joe  Kennedy  as 
a  Hitler-appeaser,  and  then  Bobby  trying 
to  deny  Johnson  the  vice-presidential 
nomination  after  it  had  been  offered  to 
him;  in  the  Kennedy  White  House,  the 
eclipse  of  LBJ  and  the  rise  of  RFK  to  the 
right  hand  of  the  president;  the  mutual 
recriminations  of  November  1963,  fol- 
lowed by  sudden  reversals  of  fortune  for 
both  men,  and  then  the  grim  plots  and 
muttering  suspicions  of  the  remaining 
four  years.  Events  pile  up.  closing  some 
doors  while  opening  others,  and  take  on 
their  own  inexorable  momentum. 

Ultimately  the  1960s  would  probably 
not  have  happened  any  differently  in 
broad  outline  had  Johnson  and  Kennedy 
not  loathed  each  other.  Kennedy  doubted 
the  war  in  part  because  it  was  Johnson's 
war,  and  LBJ  resisted  his  Vietnam  critics  in 
part  because  Bobby  was  one  of  them  - 
but  both  men  already  had  fully  adequate 
reasons  for  those  actions.  The  events  of 
the  era  consumed  all  its  personalities,  even 
the  largest.  Our  lasting  sense  of  Johnson 
and  Kennedy  is  of  two  monumental  yet 
touchy  egos,  bouncing  around  and  collid- 
ing randomly  in  a  cosmic  pinball  game, 
and  finally  defeated  by  their  tragic  times. 

Stephen  Fox  is  the  author  most  manly  of 
Blood  and  Power:  Organized  Crime  in 
[wentieth-(  lentury  America. 


FATE 


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The  Melting  Pot 


Black  Dog  of  Fate:  A  Memoir  by  Peter  Bal- 
akian  '80  Ph.D.  (Basic  Books,  289  pages, 

$24.00). 

By  Barbara  Bejoian  '84  A.M. 

A  horrible  secret  lurked  at  the  edges 
of  Peter  Balakian's  placid  and 
privileged  childhood  in  1950s  New  Jersey. 
Measuring  time  by  the  crack  of  Yankees' 
bats,  the  crisp  shouts  of  football  games, 
and  the  sleepy  whir  of  lawnmowers  in 
suburban  Tenafly,  Balakian  gave  little 
thought  to  his  family's  Armenian  origins. 
He  had  no  idea  that  his  maternal  grand- 
mother, Nafina  Aroosian,  had  survived 
one  of  the  most  brutal  massacres  of  the 
century.  Grandmother  Aroosian  wasn't 
one  for  reminiscing.  She  would  bake 
sweet  Armenian  shortbread,  called  choereg, 
and  entertain  her  grandson  with  parables. 

Once  upon  a  time,  began  one  of 
Grandmother  Aroosian  s  tales,  two  women 
made  offerings  to  the  goddess  of  fate. 
One  brought  a  young  lamb  stuffed  with 
pomegranates,  almonds,  apricots,  and  pilaf; 
its  eyes  were  set  with  rubies.  The  other 
brought  a  dead  black  dog  with  a  wormy 
apple  in  its  mouth.  The  goddess  rejected 
the  lamb  and  accepted  the  dog.  "The  dog 
represented  hope  and  mystery,"  Balakian's 
grandmother  told  him.  "The  dog  tells  us 
that  appearances  are  deceiving.  The  world 
is  not  what  you  think." 

In  Black  Dog  of  Fate,  Balakian  shows 
he  has  much  in  common  with  the  god- 
dess of  fate.  The  family  history  he  uncov- 
ers in  this  memoir  is  disturbing,  but  he 
chooses  to  face  and  embrace  the  truth 
and  its  attendant  mysteries.  Between  April 
and  October  ot  191s  the  Turkish  govern- 
ment sent  [.2  million  Armenians  into  the 
Syrian  desert  with  no  food  or  water.  As 


Christians  in  a  Muslim  country,  Arme- 
nians were  this  century's  earliest  victims 
of  ethnic  cleansing.  Their  homes  were 
pillaged,  and  the  bodies  of  the  dead  — 
including  Natina  Aroosian's  husband  and 
many  other  family  members  -  were 
picked  clean  by  thieves  as  they  fell. 

In  quiet  Tenafly,  however,  the  slaughter 
and  starvation  of  ancestors  wasn't  "suit- 
able for  conversation,"  Balakian  writes. 
But  shortly  after  his  grandmother's  death, 
an  aunt  presented  him  with  a  copy  of 
Nafina's  compensation  claim  against  the 
Turkish  government  for  the  loss  of  her 
relatives  who  died  during  the  march.  A 
chilling  account  of  the  atrocities  she'd 
experienced,  Nafina's  document  threw 
open  the  "stone  door"  with  which  Bal- 
akian's parents  had  closed  off  the  past.  • 
The  author's  journey  to  understand  that 
past  often  bristles  with  barely  concealed 
rage,  but  Balakian,  an  English  professor  at 
Colgate  who  has  written  four  books  of 
poetry  and  a  study  of  Theodore  Roethke, 
never  loses  control. 

There  is  a  bright  side  to  his  family's 
history:  survival.  Balakian's  reconciliation 
with  his  ancestry  is  part  ot  a  larger  social, 
political,  and  historical  landscape  he  paints 
of  his  life.  Grandmother  Aroosian  liked 
nothing  better  than  to  smoke  a  pipe  and 
watch  Yankees  games  on  television  with 
her  grandson.  Balakian  and  his  father 
often  took  in  football  games  at  Colum- 
bia's Baker  Field.  His  mother's  answer  to 
fast  food  was  Armenian  lahmajoon  -  flat 
bread  with  ground  lamb,  beef,  and 
chopped  vegetables.  For  the  most  part, 
Balakian's  ability  to  balance  a  wistful  nos- 
talgia tor  his  ethnic  roots  with  his  grow- 
ing awareness  of  past  atrocities  keeps  the 
book  out  of  overtly  polemical  territory. 
His  story  is  as  much  about  being  Amer- 
ican as  it  is  about  becoming  Armenian. 

In  the  book's  conclusion,  however, 
Balakian  takes  off  his  gloves.  The 
1915  massacre  has  never  been  officially 
acknowledged  by  the  Turkish  goverment, 
and  the  United  States,  sensitive  to 
Turkey's  strategic  importance  as  a  mem- 
ber of  NATO,  has  chosen  to  ignore  this 
ugly  chapter  from  its  recent  past.  "The 
Armenian  holocaust  deserves  to  take  its 
rightful  moral  place  in  history,"  Balakian 
writes.  "For  a  generation  for  whom  there 
could  be  no  justice,  the  pain  is  com- 
pounded by  the  evil  denial."  Not  all 
Armenian  Americans  share  Balakian's 
tortured  family  history,  but  most  agree 
that  it's  time  the  past  is  acknowledged. 

Barbara  Bcjoitin  is  a  playwright  ami  a  visiting 

Lamer  in  Brown's  English  department. 


2  8    •    JANUARY     I  I   B  R  I   A  R  \      hi'/  8 


Anthologies  Noted 

Growing  Up  Puerto  Mean:  An  Anthology, 
edited  by  Joy  L.  De  Jesus  '95  A.M.  (Wil- 
liam Morrow  and  Company,  229  pages, 
$24). 

As  a  child,  Joy  De  Jesus  read  "every- 
thing from  the  World  Book  Encyclopedia 
to  Anne  of  Green  Gables  to  Gone  With  the 
Wind"  she  writes.  "But  it  wasn't  until  my 
first  year  of  college  that  I  encountered 
literature  written  by  a  tellow  Puerto 
Rican."  Enchanted  by  Tato  Laviera's  po- 
etry, De  Jesus  continued  exploring  Puerto 
Rican  literature  in  graduate  school  at 
Brown.  Now  readers  can  sample  the  rich- 
ness of  Puerto  Rican  prose  in  the  twenty 
selections  that  make  up  De  Jesus's  eclectic 
collection.  From  an  autobiographical  rev- 
erie on  the  corner  bodega  to  a  tale  of  one 
girl's  secret  love,  these  writings  illuminate 
the  cultural  ambiguity  -  American  or 
Puerto  Rican?  black  or  Hispanic?  -  inher- 
ent in  the  authors'  life  stories. 

Joyful  Noise:  The  New  Testament  Revisited, 

edited  by  Rick  Moody  'S3  and  Darcey 

Steinke  (Little,  Brown,  250  pages,  $23.95). 

Entering  middle   age,  baby-boomers 


have  run  smack  into  the  old  puzzles:  Who 
are  we,  where  did  we  come  from,  and 
where  are  we  going?  As  they  wrestle  with 
metaphysical  riddles,  some  are  drawn  to 
the  religions  of  their  youth.  And  Gen  X  is 
right  on  their  heels  -  or  so  it  seems  in  this 
anthology.  Novelists  Moody  (The  Ice 
Storm)  and  Steinke  bring  us  the  latter-day 
Biblical  ruminations  of  twenty-one 
young  and  middle-aged  writers  raised  as 
Christians.  "My  generation  abdicates  its 
responsibilities  when  faced  with  the 
chance  to  articulate  what  it  believes," 
Moody  complains  in  his  introduction.  No 
such  reticence  afflicts  the  essayists,  how- 
ever. Here  we  have  Madison  Smartt  Bell 
reveling  in  St.  Paul's  poetry  and  describ- 
ing an  epiphany  at  a  vaudou  ceremony  in 
Haiti.  In  another  essay,  Ann  Powers  pon- 
ders Jesus's  powerful  appeal  to  teenagers. 
Writer  bell  hooks  lauds  a  passage  in  the 
First  Epistle  of  John.  "We  cannot  know 
love,"  she  writes,  "if  we  remain  unable  to 
surrender  our  attachment  to  power." 

The  Eighties:  A  Reader,  edited  by  Gilbert 
T.  Sewall  '70  A.M.  (Addison-Wesley,  366 
pages,  $26). 

Gilbert  Sewall,  a  New  York-based  edu- 
cation   critic,   found   himself  wondering 


in  the  1980s  "why  people  were  finding 
the  fast-lane  lifestyle  such  a  kick."  His 
curiosity  ultimately  led  to  this  collection 
of  forty-one  essays  on  the  era  and  its 
excesses  by  such  diverse  commentators  as 
Eric  Boghosian,  Irving  Kristol,  Shelby 
Steele,  and  Christina  Hoff  Sommers. 
"The  culture  wars  of  the  eighties  have  not 
ended,"  Sewall  observes  in  his  introduc- 
tory essay.  One  combatant,  Brown  history 
professor  Stephen  Graubard,  went  head- 
to-head  with  then-Secretary  of  Educa- 
tion William  J.  Bennett  on  the  question 
ot  the  so-called  Western  canon.  In  1988, 
Bennett  criticized  Stanford  for  broaden- 
ing its  required  freshman  course,  formerly 
known  as  Western  Culture.  "Only  a  mind 
paralyzed  by  yesterday's  values,"  scolded 
Graubard  in  a  NewYork  Times  op-ed  piece 
reprinted  in  Sewall's  book,  "will  demand 
that  [syllabus  changes]  be  weighed  on 
some  mythical  scale  to  determine  their 
cultural  worth."  -  Anne  Dijfily 


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In  the  Jordanian 
desert,  a  Brown  team 
is  uncovering  a 
vanished  Arab 
civilization  whose 
brief,  eclectic 
culture  is  as  lovely 


as  it  is  strange. 


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1  never  thought  this  would  be  possi- 
\  ble,"  says  Martha  Sharp  Joukowsky 
'58.  "It's  like  going  to  Rome  and  say- 
ing,'I'd  like  to  dig  here.'  "  Since  1993, 
J  Joukowsky,  a  professor  of  archaeol- 
ogy, has  been  leading  groups  of  Brown  students  to 
the  ancient  Middle  Eastern  city  of  Petra.  For  ten 
weeks  each  summer,  in  temperatures  that  easily  ex- 
ceed 100  degrees,  they  dig  alongside  members  of 
four  local  Bedouin  tribes.  In  Petra,  which  sits  in  a 
remote,  beautiful,  and  relatively  undisturbed  rift  in 
the  Shara  Mountains  of  southern  Jordan,  Joukowsky 
has  found  her  inspiration  and  purpose. 

"Petra  is  enigmatic,"  she  says.  "It  appears  solitary. 
You're  in  the  middle  of  the  desert,  yet  you  go  down 
to  Petra.  The  mountains  are  towering  all  around, 
and  at  every  bend,  there's  something  new  to  see." 
Much  of  Petra  remains  undiscovered;  only  two  per- 
cent of  the  central  city  has  been  excavated.  Although 
it  later  became  an  im- 
portant Roman  and 
Byzantine  city,  Petra 
reached  its  peak  under 
the  Nabataeans,  an 
Arab  tribe  whose 
civilization  lasted  a 
mere  300  years,  from 
roughly  200  B.C..  to 
100  a.d.  Petra  was 
the  Nabataean  capi- 
tal, decorated  with  a 
splendor  that  suggests 
its  position  as  an  im- 
portant cultural  and 
financial  center  of  the 
ancient  world.  "The 
Nabataeans  were  no- 
mads," Joukowsky  explains,  "who  became  rich  from 
controlling  the  trading  routes.  Suddenly  they've  got 
all  the  money  in  world  to  do  what  they  want.  And 
what  do  they  do?  They  build  a  city." 


The  view  of  Pharoah's  Treasury  (facing  page),  as  seen  through 

the  Siq.  Using  a  portable  radio,  Martha  Joukowsky  (above) 
directs  the  excavation  of  an  arched  trench  at  the  Great  Temple. 


Although  Petra's  numerous  tombs  have  made 
some  visitors  think  of  it  as  a  city  of  the  dead, 
Joukowsky  explains  that  it  was  in  fact  a  bustling, 
noisy  metropolis  of  30,000  people.  But  who  those 
people  were,  how  they  lived,  and  what  they  believed 
is  still  largely  buried  in  the  desert  sand.  Until  a  few 
years  ago,  the  story  of  the  Nabataeans  was  a  badly 
fragmented  narrative  pieced  together  from  the  sparse 
accounts  of  a  few  ancient  historians.  Thanks  to  the 
efforts  of  Joukowsky  and  her  colleagues,  the  narra- 
tive is  filling  out,  its  details  gleaned  from  the  great 
buildings  the  Nabataeans  left  behind. 

Petra,  in  fact,  has  become  so  well-known  that 
more  than  10,000  tourists  visit  the  remote  site 
each  year.  Joukowsky  has  guided  such  world  leaders 
as  Israeli  Prime  Minister  Benjamin  Netanyahu  and 
former  U.S.  Secretary  of  State  Warren  Christopher 
through  the  excavation.  Almost  all  visitors,  whether 
famous      politicians      or      anonymous      pilgrims, 

enter  the  city  through 
the  Siq,  a  narrow, 
shadowy  cleft  worn 
through  the  moun- 
tains by  the  rushing 
winter  floods.  Emerg- 
ing from  the  Siq,  vis- 
itors first  see  the  par- 
tially reconstructed 
Pharoah's  Treasury,  or 
Kashne  el  Far'un,  which 
the  Nabataeans  carved 
from  the  very  flanks  of 
Petra's  dry  mountains. 
According  to  Naba- 
taean legend,  the  ten- 
foot-high  urn  in  the 
facades  second  story 
is  filled  with  Pharoah's  treasure.  Until  recently,  the 
Bedouin  were  said  to  fire  their  rifles  at  the  urn,  hop- 
ing it  would  one  day  fall  to  pieces  and  shower  them 
with  gold  and  jewels. 


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Above:  A  detail  from  one  of  the  temple's 
capitals  shows  the  finely  detailed  carving 
of  leaves  and  vines. 

Right:  An  overview  of  the  Great  Temple 
and  the  Valley  of  Moses,  or  Wadi  Musa 
showing,  at  bottom,  the  remains  of  a 
cobbled  Roman  road  and  above  it,  the 
steps  leading  to  the  temple.  Above 
the  steps,  in  the  lower  sacred  area,  or 
feme/105,  three  rows  of  columns  have 
been  exposed.  Above  them  is  the  heart 
of  the  temple;  the  excavated  portion 
of  the  semicircular  theatron  can  be  seen 
beyond  the  double  row  of  large  columns. 

Opposite  page:  The  temple  columns  were 
constructed  of  sandstone  drums  (top) 
later  toppled  by  earthquakes.  Digging  at 
Petra  occasionally  requires  removing 
large  amounts  of  sand  (center),  which 
moves  freely  during  winter  floods.  A  high- 
light of  the  1997  digging  season  was 
uncovering  the  base  of  a  column  (bottom) 
in  the  rear  of  the  temple;  the  base  and 
stairs  were  buried  under  nearly  twenty- 
three  feet  of  sand. 


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nlike  the  Kashne,  many  other  buildings 
in  Petra  are  freestanding.  The  largest  of 
these  is  the  Great  Temple,  the  focus  of 
the  Brown  team's  work  for  the  past  five 
years.     Standing     in     the     most     sacred 
precinct  ot  the  city,  the  temple  is  covered  by  as  many  as 
twenty-one  feet  of  sand.  When  Joukowsky  surveyed  the 
surface  in  1993,  architectural  fragments  littered  the  site, 
and  columns  lay  toppled  on  their  sides,  eroded  and  bro- 
ken after  centuries  of  earthquakes  and  floods. 

Using  techniques  ranging  from  aerial  pho- 
tography, laser  surveys,  and  computer  recon- 
struction to  simple  digging,  [oukowsky  s  team 
has  gradually  described  a  structure  of  elaborate 
and  delicate  beauty,  constructed  by  stone 
carvers  the  Nabataeans  probably  brought  in 
from  Alexandria.  These  artisans  embellished 
their  work  in  a  style  that  combined  native  and 
Hellenic  influences.  Inside  the  great  temples 
are  columns  with  capitals  in  the  form  of  ele- 
phant heads  or  chiseled  into  the  delicate  shapes 
of  acanthus  leaves.  Exposed  by  the  Brown  team 
are  stone  canopies  of  flowering  vines;  hanging 
from  them,  in  Joukowsky's  words,  are  "the 
richest  imaginable  profusion  of  flowers  and 
fruits."  In  modern  geographic  terms,  the 
Nabataeans  once  controlled  portions  of  Syria, 
Egypt,  and  Saudi  Arabia,  as  well  as  all  of  Jordan, 
the  Israeli  Negev,  and  Sinai.  Petra's  ornate 
buildings  were  a  vivid  symbol  of  this  mysteri- 
ous colonial  power. 


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he  Great  Temple  of  Petra  is  also  a 

Tn  great  Brown  classroom.  Elizabeth 
Payne  '95,  an  archaeology  graduate 
student  at  Boston  University,  has 
J  been  working  there  every  summer 
since  her  sophomore  year.  Joukowsky,  she  says,  differs 
from  most  archaeologists  in  being  equally  devoted  to 
teaching  and  research. 

"A  lot  of  scholars  tend  to  gear  their  research 
toward  graduate  students,"  Payne  says.  "But  Martha 
allows  undergraduates  to  lead  their  own  trench  exca- 
vations -  I  led  my  first  when  I  was  a  junior  -  and 
then  write  final  reports  in  which  they  describe  what 
they've  found  and  try  to  piece  together  which  things 
came  first."  Joukowsky  enjoys  watching  undergradu- 
ates mature  under  the  hot  Jordanian  sun.  "Petra  is 
really  a  testing  ground,  a  proving  ground  for  them," 
she  says.  "At  Petra  they  discover  how  far  they  can 
push  themselves  physically,  emotionally,  mentally." 

Students  also  learn  from  the  Bedouin.  "In  addi- 
tion to  the  interactions  with  the  ancient  world," 
Payne  says,  "there  are  interactions  with  the  modern 
world  as  well."  The  Bedul,  as  the  local  Bedouin  tribe 
is  known,  claim  to  be  the  descendants  of  a  legendary 
Nabataean  king.  Today  they  try  to  adapt  to  a  world 
where  nomads  can  no  longer  roam  freely  to  tend 
their  herds  of  goats,  (oukowsky  reports  that  most 
Bedul  now    live  in  overcrowded  government  hous- 


ing, where,  despite  better  schools  and  health  clinics, 
they  resent  the  loss  of  their  traditional  ways. 

Such  tensions  seldom  surface  during  the  excavat- 
ing season,  though,  and  the  students  are  over- 
whelmed by  the  tribes'  ethic  of  hospitality.  Pots  of  tea 
appear  seemingly  out  of  nowhere,  and  close  friend- 
ships have  developed  between  members  ot  the 
Brown  team  and  local  tribesmen.  "The  Bedouin  have 
this  marvelous  sense  of  attachment,"  Joukowsky  says. 
"If  somebody  dies  in  one  of  their  families,  we  go  and 
sit.  When  someone  marries,  we  give  a  fifty-pound 
sack  of  rice  and  sacks  of  sugar  and  tea.  As  much  as  we 
can  be,  we  are  part  of  their  fabric." 


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Artist  Simon  Sullivan  '95  (facing 
page,  top)  draws  a  freshly  unearthed 
artifact.  Dakhilallah  Qublan  (facing 
page,  bottom),  foreman  of  the  dig's 
Jordanian  workers,  refreshes  himself 
with  tea.  The  workers,  mostly  Bedouin 
tribesmen,  "are  a  joy,"  says  Martha 
Joukowsky.  "They  are  hard  workers, 
fiercely  loyal,  and  full  of  fun." 

With  pickax  and  hand  tools  (right), 
Bedouins  and  members  of  the  Brown 
team  dig  together  in  the  trenches 
and  hot  sun.  Eventually,  it's  time  for 
everyone  to  escape  the  heat  and 
assemble  in  the  shade  of  tarps  (below) 
for  refreshments  and  relaxing  talk. 


s  the  Petra  dig  has  progressed,  it  has 
illuminated  the  solutions  to  some 
mysteries  and  has  found  new  and 
deeper  ones.  Chief  among  them  is 
the  temple's  purpose.  Two  summers 
ago,  Joukowsky  and  her  crew  uncovered  what  she 
believes  to  be  a  300-seat  theatron  (Greek  for  "a  place 
of  seeing").  The  discovery  suggests  the  temple  may 
have  been  a  civic  site  at  one  time,  or  may  have  played 
more  than  one  role  m  Nabataean  culture.  "It  either 
has  to  be  a  religious  building  or  a  civic  building," 
Joukowsky  says  of  the  Great  Temple,  adding  that 
there  is  no  known  example  in  antiquity  of  a  temple 
suddenly  becoming  a  secular  building.  "I'm  still 
clinging  to  the  idea  that  it  was  originally  built  as  a 
temple.  Perhaps  the  theatron  could  have  been  the 
highest  religious  court  in  Petra,  which  considered 
matters  of  life  and  death.  But  we  don't  have  an  altar 
yet,"  Joukowsky  says.  "If  we  find  the  altar,  we  can 
pretty  much  say  it's  a  temple." 

Until  the  winter  rains  end  and  the  June  heat 
begins  to  build,  Joukowsky  will  have  to  be  content 
with  sifting  through  the  mountain  of  data  she  has 
already  collected.  She  will  pore  over  almost  1,000 
photos  taken  by  her  husband,  University  Chancellor 
Artemis  A.W.  Joukowsky  '55,  who  serves  as  the  exca- 
vation's photographer.  She  will  continue  to  teach,  and 
she  will  decide  which  students  get  to  fill  the  Petra 
camp's  seventeen  beds  this  coming  summer.  Most  of 
all,  Martha  Joukowsky  will  ponder  the  ways  of  the 
Nabataeans,  who,  she  says,  "took  everything  they 
knew  of  the  world  and  carved  it  into  stone."  O^ 


Joukowsky  finds  that  undergraduates 
thrive  when  allowed  the  kind  of 
responsibility  and  independence  usu- 
ally reserved  for  graduate  students 
in  the  field.  Katrina  Haile  '99  and 
Margaret  Parker  '99  (above,  left  to 
right)  set  a  level  in  preparation  for 
documenting  the  contents  of  their 
trench.  Laurel  Bestock  '99  (left)  traces 
a  piece  of  pottery  indoors  when  the 
afternoon  sun  is  too  fierce  to  allow 
work  outside. 


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Other  archaeologists  working  in  the 
Byzantine  church  across  the  Roman 
road  from  the  Great  Temple  have 
recently  uncovered  some  spectacular 
mosaics  (right),  as  well  as  important 
papyrus  scrolls. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MAGAZINE    ♦    37 


Filling  the  Canvas 


Art  is  a  quest  for  inspiration  and  meaning. 
Or  is  it?  A  group  of  aspiring  artists 
goes  to  New  York  and  learns  that  art 
is  a  business,  too. 


38 


Aboard  a  chartered  bus  idling  outside  the  List 
Art  Center  on  a  raw,  dark  November  morn- 
ing, visual  arts  professor  Richard  Fishman  is  shouting 
into  his  cellular  phone.  "Get  outta  bed!"  he  bellows, 
causing  answering  machines  to  jump  all  over  campus. 
"We'll  have  to  leave  you  if  you're  not  here  by  6:30." 

By  6:35,  the  bus  is  merging  onto  an  all-but-aban- 
doned Interstate  95,  carrying  thirty-nine  of  the  forty- 
five  students  who  signed  up  for  this  trip.  Cowlicked, 
unshaven,  and  nearly  comatose,  they  settle  down  for  the 
four-hour  journey  to  Manhattan.  Someone  pops  in  a 
videotape  of  Tlic  Godfather,  and  those  who  aren't  already 
unconscious  nod  off  to  the  sound  of  gunfire. 

The  students  don't  know  it  yet,  but  the  whirlwind 
tour  they're  about  to  undertake  -  of  galleries,  museums, 
and  meetings  with  alumni  -  will  amount  to  a  second 
wake-up  call,  this  one  having  to  do  with  their  assump- 
tions about  what  constitutes  a  career  m  art.  For  these 
aspiring  artists  are  about  to  learn  firsthand  that  the  art 
world  is  a  complicated,  often  crass  place,  and  that  being 
an  artist  means  more  than  splashing  pamt  on  canvases 
and  creating  sculptures  from  scrap  metal. 

A  highly  regarded  sculptor  himself ,  Fishman  is  an 
old  pro  at  organizing  such  pointed  adventures,  having 
chaperoned  one-day  New  York  City  trips  for  the  past 
fifteen  years.  This  semester  he  has  invited  students  from 
two  courses  -  Introductory  Drawing  and  Advanced 
Studio  Foundation  -  and  from  his  department's  honors 
program.  Fishman  hopes  the  trip  will  make  students 
aware  of  protession.il  choices  they  might  not  normally 
consider.  "There's  .1  business  side  and  a  curatorial  side" 
to  the  art  work!,  he  says,  "and  not  everyone  who  is 

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interested  in  art  ends  up  as  a  painter  or  sculptor."  To  help 
make  these  points,  he  has  enlisted  the  help  of  a  gallery 
director,  two  painters  with  very  different  careers,  and  a 
future  curator. 

The  trip's  freewheeling  design  dovetails  with  Fish- 
man's  pedagogical  style,  which  he  describes  as  "less  like 
teaching  and  more  like  leading  students  toward  some- 
thing they  discover  themselves."  Over  the  course  of  the 
day.  Fishman  will  pepper  his  students  with  questions  and 
present  them  with  a  variety  of  personalities  and  settings. 
but  he  will  not  draw  conclusions  for  them.  They  must 
connect  the  dots  and  figure  out  for  themselves  how  they 
might  one  day  fit  into  the  art  world  -  or  if  they  will  at  all. 


BY  TORRI  STILL 
■ 

PHOTOGRAPHS  BY 
JOHN  FORASTE 


Fantail,  a  metal  sculpture 
by  John  Chamberlain, 
is  one  of  the  works  on 
display  at  the  Leo 
Castelli  Gallery,  where 
Morgan  Spangle  '81 
(far  left)  is  the  director. 
Below,  Keith  Craw  '98 
ponders  James 
Rosenquist's  Two  1959 
People,  also  part  of  the 
Castelli  exhibit. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MAGAZINE    •    39 


At  10:30  the  bus  pulls  up  in  front  of  the  Leo 
Castelli  Gallery  in  S0H0.  Fishman  leads  his 
coterie  up  a  flight  of  stairs,  and  they  emerge  into  a  large, 
spare,  white  room  with  hardwood  floors;  its  walls  are 
covered  with  works  by  Pop  artists  Roy  Lichtenstein  and 
James  Rosenquist.  Lingering  is  cut  short,  though,  when 
Fishman  ushers  in  Morgan  Spangle  '81,  the  gallery's 
director.  There  are  sarcastic  murmurs  of  "nice  shoes"  - 
Spangle's  fine,  doublebreasted  suit  and  shiny  loafers  elicit 
suspicion  from  the  nose-ringed,  jean-clad  crowd. 

Spangle  speaks  briefly  about  his  transition  from 
painter  to  gallery  director  -  a  path  that  included  gradu- 
ate school  at  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  and  stints  at 
various  galleries  and  at  Christie's,  the  auction  house  — 
then  touches  upon  the  state  of  the  art  world  in  the  late 
1990s.  "Like  the  sixties,  it's  a  pluralistic  time,"  he  says. 
"There  is  no  overriding,  dominant  movement.  And 
because  there  are  more  galleries  —  and  now  Web  sites  - 
there  is  more  opportunity  to  gain  recognition  than 
there  was  even  ten  years  ago."  Spangle,  who  is  late  for 
a  meeting,  departs  as  abruptly  as 
he  entered. 


Afterward,  on  the  street  outside  the  gallery,  a  sopho- 
more named  Michael  grumbles, "I  wasn't  expecting  Span- 
gle to  be  such  a  symbol  of  white  male  power."  Many  in 
the  group  seem  dispirited  to  learn  that  the  commercial 
side  of  the  art  world  operates  with  the  same  bottom- 
line  mentality  and  hurried  pace  as  the  "real"  business 
world. The  gallery  scene  is  "snotty,"  opines  Karl  Haendel 
'98.  Fortunately,  Fishman  has  arranged  tor  an  antidote. 

By  11:30  the  students  are  sitting  cross-legged  on  the 
floor  of  another  spare  white  room  several  blocks  away,  at 
Jay  Gorney  Modern  Art.  Fishman  introduces  Keith 
Mayerson  '88  by  explaining  that  he  thought  it  impor- 
tant for  a  "starving  artist"  to  balance  the  students' 
impression  of  the  elite  S0H0  gallery  scene.  Although 
Mayerson  may  not  fit  the  bill  of  "starving  artist,"  his 
critically  acclaimed  exhibition  at  Jay  Gorney  is  his  first 
solo  show  in  New  York. 

The  tall,  lean  Mayerson  offers  encouragement  tem- 
pered with  realism,  recounting  his  evolution  from  Brown 
Daily  Herald  cartoonist  (Slice  of  Mayo)  to  an  artist  with 
his  own  show.  He  set  out  to  be  a  cartoonist  for  the  New 
Yorker  but  quickly  grew  disillusioned  with  "having  to 


Standing  in  front  of  two  of  his 
paintings,  Keith  Mayerson  '88 
explains  that  a  gallery  is  simply 
a  "nice,  elite  store." 


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Annie  Kirby  '01, 
Rachel  Zoffness  '98, 
and  Brendan  Kramp'98 
contemplate  Julian 
Schnabel's  Young  Man 
on  the  Road  to  Hell; 


turn  every  concept  into  something  funny" 
and  opted  for  the  M.F.A.  program  at  the 
University  of  California-Irvine  instead.  He 
is  blunt  about  the  practical  side  of  an  artis- 
tic career:  "Look.  You  could  make  more 
money  doing  a  multitude  of  other  things. 
'ortrait  You'll  discover  this  later  on,  when  your 
friends  are  bringing  home  six-figure 
salaries."  But  when  Mayerson  describes  his 
love  of  art,  thirty-nine  upturned  faces 
break  into  smiles.  "Art  is  a  progression  of 
ideas,"  he   reminds   them.  "It  pushes   the 

boundaries  of  the  way  I  think  and  the  way  other  people 

think.  Artists  who  are  known  for  their  important  ideas  — 

those  are  the  people  who  win  in  the  end." 

Walking  to  the  next  stop,  Alice,  a  sophomore,  and 

Michael  sort  out  their  impressions  of  the  two  alumni 


they've  met  this  morning.  "There's  quite  a  contrast 
between  the  Brown  graduate  who  stays  an  artist  and  the 
one  who  decides  to  sell  art,"  mulls  Alice.  Then,  with  a 
heavy  sigh,  she  adds,  "I'm  also  realizing  how  insignifi- 
cant four  years  of  undergraduate  education  are."  The 
M.F.A.  question  looms  after  both  Spangle  and  Mayerson 
have  discussed  the  benefits  of  graduate  school. 

Calvin  Burton  '01  and  Sarah  Raymont  '99  have  a 
less  polarized  take  on  the  art  world. "It's  not  like  gallery- 
management  types  can  be  the  only  ones  who  are  sell- 
outs," says  Raymont.  "You  can  sell  out  as  a  painter,  too,  if 
you  start  painting  just  for  a  particular  audience."  Burton 
agrees. "As  long  as  you're  doing  your  paintings,  it  doesn't 
matter  what  you  do  to  pay  the  bills,"  he  says. 

As  if  to  prove  a  point,  the  next  session  is  with  the 
renowned  painter  Julian  Schnabel,  whom  the  students 
are  noticeably  eager  to  meet. 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MAGAZINE    •    i.  I 


A  Portrait  of  Vito 
Maria  Schnabel 
(age  10)  towers 
over  artist  Julian 
Schnabel. 


When  the  students  enter  the  Pace/Wilder- 
stein  Gallery  shortly  after  noon,  Schnabel  is 
standing  among  his  paintings,  smoking  a  cigarette  and 
wearing  sunglasses.  He  greets  Fishman,  motions  for  the 
students  to  sit  on  the  floor,  and  sits  down  himself, 
slouching  against  the  wall  beneath  an  enormous  nude 
portrait  of  his  son. 

"1  was  out  really  late  last  night,"  he  explains  un- 
apologetically,  summoning  an  assistant  to  dispose  ot  his 
cigarette. "I'm  forty-six  years  old.  I  started  painting  when 
I  was  three,  and  I'm  not  good  at  anything  else.  I've  been 
showing  art  in  New  York  for  twenty  years. ...  I  don't 
think  about  the  'public'  It  might  sound  ridiculous,  but  I've 
made  the  paintings  for  myself.  Painting  makes  me  calm." 

At  first,  the  students  are  captivated  by  Schnabel's 
monologue  on  his  career  and  the  state  of  art,  but  their 
attention  begins  to  ebb  after  a  half-hour  of  sitting  on 
the  hardwood  floor,  straining  to  hear  the  artist's  soft 
voice.  Some  wander  through  the  gallery;  others  stare 
into  space.  But  when  Schnabel  concludes  his  talk  and 
walks  around  the  gallery  to  discuss  individual  paintings, 
they  snap  back  to  attention,  encircling  him  at  each  stop 
and  bombarding  him  with  questions.  Fishman  cuts  the 
session  short  so  Schnabel  can  escape  to  his  waiting  car 
and  driver.  The  students  seem  a  bit  stunned  by  this 
glimpse  of  an  artist  who  has  made  it  big.  "Schnabel  may 
be  arrogant,"  Karl  Haendel  observes,  "but  at  least  he's  up 
front  about  it." 

"It's  impressive  that  Professor  Fishman  has  lined  up 
so  many  important  people,"  notes  Lauren  Bessen  '01 
after  lunch.  "Hearing  about  Keith  Mayerson's  experi- 
ences was  really  valuable,  especially  about  his  transition 
from  Brown  to  an  art  career."  Lulu  Hansen  '01  adds, 
"Spangle's  career  didn't  have  much  in  common  with 
what  we  do,  but  it's  good  to  hear  about  someone  who's 
taken  a  different  path." 

Fishman  finds  such  comments  helpful  in  planning 
future  trips. "Meeting  a  major  celebrity  is  always  exciting." 
he  says,  adding  that  for  the  students,  "it  seems  most  im- 
portant to  meet  with  people  who  give  insight  into  art." 
The  students'  glowing  comments  about  Mayerson,  some- 
one whom  they  can  relate  to  as  a  Brown  graduate  and 
young  struggling  artist,  seem  to  support  Fishman's  theory. 


Lyn  Rasic  '98, 
Barbara  Martinez  '98, 
and  Denise  Bilbao  '98 
take  a  closer  look  at  a 
Robert  Rauschenberg. 


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^^  y  mid-afternoon,  assistant  curator  Betsy  Car- 
\i^^  penter  is  leading  the  students  through  a  Robert 
Rauschenberg  retrospective  at  the  Guggenheim 
Museum-SoHo. There  are  audible  murmurs  ot"Cool!" 
and  "I  like  that."  But  the  students'  feet  are  dragging  by 
this  point,  and  each  time  Carpenter  pauses  at  a  work, 
the  group  drops,  one  by  one,  to  the  floor.  Fishman 
assesses  the  prevailing  mood  -  exhaustion  -  and  asks 
Carpenter  to  describe  her  job.  Carpenter  talks  about  the 
benefits  of  working  in  a  museum,  such  as  the  non-hier- 
archical  staff  structure  and  the  fact  that  projects  are  tack- 
led in  teams.  She  also  discusses  how  to  balance  employ- 
ment with  graduate  school  (she's  a  doctoral  student  in 
art  history).  Even  though  few  ot  the  students  plan  to 
work  as  curators,  they  seem  interested  in  knowing  about 
their  options  —just  in  case. 

It  is  dark  when  the  students  emerge  from  the 
Guggenheim,  and  a  fierce  wind  rips  down  Broadway  as 
they  huddle  together  waiting  for  the  bus.  They  are  off  to 
their  fifth  stop  ot  the  day,  purposely  left  blank  on  their 


printed  schedules.  Fishman  directs  the  driver  to  China- 
town, where  as  a  surprise  he  has  arranged  for  a  Viet- 
namese restaurant  to  serve  a  multicourse  meal. 

Back  aboard  the  bus  to  Providence,  the  group  is  loud 
and  giddy.  Fishman  tries  to  harness  the  excess  energy  by 
asking  tor  impressions  ot  the  trip.  "So,  kids,"  he  begins, 
microphone  in  hand.  "What  did  you  learn  today?" 

"That  the  future  of  art  is  ideas,  not  drawing  skills," 
someone  shouts  back. 

"Interesting.  Can  anyone  expand  on  that?"  Fishman 
asks. 

Silence. Then:  "I  just  wanna  know  it  anyone  has  seen 
my  water  bottle,"  a  plaintive  voice  inquires  from  the  rear 
of  the  bus. 

"Fair  enough,"  Fishman  says.  Clearly  the  symposium 
has  ended  for  the  day.  "Want  me  to  pop  in  The  Godfather?' 

"Fishman,  you  are  the  Godfather,"  says  a  voice  from 
the  back. 

Their  professor  grins. "Yep,"  he  says."]  guess  I  am."0^> 


BHOWN    ALUMNI    MAGAZIN1.    ♦    43 


In  1996, 


David  Rohde  '90 


Prize 


for  uncovering 
evidence  of  Europe's 


worst  massacre 


since  World  War  II. 

Now  he  wonders: 

Will  his  work 

make  any  difference? 


BY  NORMAN   BOUCHER 


On  April  16,  1993,  the 
United  Nations  estab- 
lished its  first-ever  "safe 
area"  in  the  mining  city 
of  Srebrenica,  which  lies 
in  Bosnia-Herzegovina  about  ten  miles 
west  of  its  border  with  Serbia.  In  the  year 
since  war  had  broken  out  in  Bosnia,  the 
population  of  Srebrenica  (pronounced 
Sre-bre-NEET-s<i)  and  the  surrounding 
thirty  square  miles  had  swelled  from  just 
under  40,000  people  to  about  60,000. 
The  safe  area,  which  eventually  became 
one  of  six  in  Bosnia,  was  part  of  a  new 
UN.  strategy  aimed  at  remain- 
ing neutral  in  the  war  while  pro- 
viding relatively  secure  sites  for 
civilians  and  refugees. 

On  July  6,  1995,  while  the 
attention  of  the  world  was  on 
the  capital  city  of  Sarajevo, 
Bosnian  Serbs,  using  artillery, 
tanks,  and  rockets,  began  an 
assault  on  the  Srebrenica  safe 
area.  By  mid-July,  Srebrenica  had 
fallen.  Bosnian  Muslims  who 
managed  to  escape  the  fighting 
told  gruesome  stories  of  rape, 
slaughter,  and  mass  executions. 
They  told  ot  men  being  lined  up 
in  group  after  group,  gunned 
down  with  machine  guns,  and  then  bull- 
dozed into  pits  and  covered  with  earth. 

After  the  survivors'  stories  became 
public,  U.S.  intelligence  analysts  reexam- 
ined satellite  photographs  taken  in  July 
and  found  two  of  particular  interest.  In 
one,  people  are  clustered  in  a  soccer  field 
in  Nova  Kasaba,  a  village  about  fourteen 
miles  west  ot  Srebrenica;  in  a  photograph 
taken  a  few  days  later,  the  soccer  field  is 
empty  and  in  a  meadow  a  half-mile  away 
are  three  areas  where  the  earth  has  appar- 
ently been  recently  dug  up.  The  analysts, 
however,  could  not  determine  from  the 
photographs  whether  these  sites  con- 
tamed  any  evidence  of  the  reported  mas- 
sacres or  any  clue  about  what  happened 
to  the  thousands  of  Muslim  men  missing 
from  the  area. The  International  Commit- 
tee of  the  Red  Cross  later  set  the  number 
of  missing  at  7,079,  all  but  a  handful  of 
them  civilians. 

On  August  10.  1995, 1  )avid  Rohde  '90, 


a  twenty-eight-year-old  reporter  for  the 
Christum  Science  Monitor,  entered  Serbian- 
controlled  Bosnia  under  the  pretext  he 
was  going  to  the  city  of  Pale,  which  the 
Bosnian  Serbs  claimed  as  their  capital. 
With  him  were  a  Serb  driver  and  a  Serb 
translator.  Out  of  sight  in  the  car  was  a  fax 
of  the  aerial  photo  the  CIA  had  released 
showing  freshly  turned  earth.  Having  first 
driven  to  Pale  a  few  days  before,  Rohde 
knew  the  road  to  the  city  passed  near  Sre- 
brenica. As  they  approached,  Rohde  asked 
the  driver  to  stop  in  Nova  Kasaba.  Like 
most  Serbs,  the  driver  did  not  believe  the 


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stories  about  the  Srebrenica  massacres,  so 
he  saw  little  harm  in  granting  the  Amer- 
ican reporters  whim. 

Rohde  stepped  out  of  the  car  and 
searched  the  area  for  two  hours.  He  found 
Muslim  prayer  beads,  handwritten  meet- 
ing notes  that  included  a  list  of  Muslim 
names,  various  other  Srebrenica  docu- 
ments, two  empty  ammunition  boxes,  and 
a  1982  elementary-school  diploma  for  a 
boy  with  a  Muslim  name.  He  found  areas 
of  freshly  turned  earth,  but  nothing  to 
indicate  for  certain  that  they  were  grave 
sites.  As  Rohde  searched,  he  heard  rifle 
shots  now  and  then  in  the  nearby  woods; 
later  he  would  realize  it  was  the  sound  of 
Bosnian  Serb  soldiers  "Muslim  hunting." 
Crowing  increasingly  nervous,  he  began 
making  his  way  back  toward  the  car.  He 
spotted  one  last  gulley  he  hadn't  exam- 
ined, and  descended  into  it.  There  he 
found  another  freshly  dug  site.  Protruding 
from  it  were  the  remains  of  a  human  leg. 


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As  Rohde  emerged  from  the  gulley,  a 
truckload  of  Bosnian  Serb  soldiers 
approached  down  the  road.  Rohde  waved 
as  they  passed,  feigning  nonchalance. 
Continuing  on  toward  his  car,  Rohde 
heard  the  truck's  brakes  begin  to  squeal. 
He  thought:  They're  coming  back  for 
me.  Then  he  realized  the  truck  was  only 
slowing  down  for  a  curve  in  the  road. 

Rohde  never  made  it  to  Pale.  Instead 
he  raced  back  to  Belgrade  and  called 
his  editor.  "I  found  a  leg!"  he  yelled  into 
the  phone.  "I  found  a 
leg!"  He  had  become  the 
first  reporter  to  visit  the 
sites  described  by  Srebre- 
nica's survivors  since  the 
city  had  fallen.  The  next 
April,  after  two  more 
months  of  work,  includ- 
ing another  clandestine 
visit  to  more  suspected 
grave  sites  and  ten  days 
spent  as  a  Serb  prisoner, 
Rohde  was  awarded  the 
Pulitzer  Prize  for  interna- 
tional reporting.  His  jour- 
nalism had  helped  estab- 
lish that  between  July  12 
and  July  16,  1995,  Bosnian 
Serb  soldiers  had  hunted 
down  and  executed  more 
than  7,000  unarmed  Mus- 
lim men.  Europe  had  seen 
its  largest  single  massacre 
since  World  War  11. 

Less  than  two  years  before  find- 
ing the  first  evidence  of  that 
massacre,  David  Rohde  was 
covering  school  board  hear- 
ings in  the  Bucks  County 
town  of  Doylestown,  Pennsylvania.  The 
route  to  Bosnia  had  been  an  unlikely 
one.  As  a  history  concentrator  specializ- 
ing 111  East  Asian  history  at  Brown, 
Rohde  had  had  little  interest  in  journal- 
ism, even  though  he  had  been  the  editor 
of  his  high  school  newspaper  in  the  west- 
ern Maine  town  of  Center  Lovell.  "1 
thought  1  would  become  a  history  pro- 
lessor  after  college  or  work  in  a  think 
tank,"  he  says.  "I  here  were  long  periods 
when  I  didn't  want  to  become  a  foreign 
correspondent  because  I  thought  I'd  end 
up  drunk  and  lonely." 

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Brown. The  University  rejected  him  when 
he  applied  out  of  high  school,  and 
changed  its  mind  only  after  Rohde  had 
spent  two  years  at  Bates  College  in  Maine. 
Once  on  campus  Rohde  was  both  im- 
pressed and  overwhelmed.  "The  thing 
about  Brown  was  the  caliber  of  the  peo- 
ple," he  says.  "At  the  same  time,  I  was 
intimidated. There  were  all  these  cool  kids 
from  New  York  who  dressed  in  black  and 
smoked  cigarettes."  Although  he  wrote  a 
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Independent,  Rohde  remained  largely 
invisible  on  campus,  "a  dork  with  few 
friends,"  he  says.  He  attributes  his  drive  to 
succeed  from  his  mother,  now  divorced 
from  Rohde's  father  and  a  successful 
business  executive,  but  his  father,  he  adds, 
"was  very  very  very  very  very  strong 
about  never  having  an  attitude  that  you're 
better  than  anyone  else."  Thanks  in  part 
to  this  ethic,  for  most  of  his  two  years  at 
the  University,  Rohde  volunteered  off- 
campus  at  the  Dorothy  Day  drop-in  cen- 
ter in  Providence  and  taught  English  as  a 
Second  Language  at  Pawtucket's  Progreso 
Latino.  Although  his  activities  may  have 
seemed  aimless  at  the  time,  he  now  says 
they  were  part  of  a  broader  pattern  in  his 
life  "of  trying  to  juggle  the  real  world  and 
academic  theory." 

There  was,  however,  one  course  at 
Brown  -  and  one  professor  -  that  would 
later  exert  a  great  influence  on  Rohde's 


choice  of  profession.  In  the  fall  of  19S9, 
he  enrolled  in  a  seminar  with  Roger 
Henkle,  a  professor  of  English  and  a 
founder  of  Brown's  Center  for  Modern 
Culture  and  Media  (now  an  academic 
department).  Before  coming  to  Brown, 
Henkle,  who  was  only  fifty-five  when 
he  died  of  a  heart  attack  while  jogging 
in  1991,  had  been  a  co-founder  and  man- 
aging editor  of  the  San  Francisco  Bay 
Guardian.  At  the  University  he  influenced 
many  future  journalists,  despite  his  spe- 
cialty in  Victorian  litera- 
ture. "Henkle  was  different 
from  my  other  professors 
at  Brown,"  Rohde  says. 
"He  paid  a  tremendous 
amount  of  attention  to 
you.  And  he  combined 
the  theoretical  with  the 
practical.  We  would  apply 
semiotics  or  literary  theory 
to  a  story  that  would 
have  an  effect  in  the  real 
world."  Henkle's  brilliance 
as  a  teacher  is  evident  in 
the  fate  of  his  students. 
Among  those  in  Rohde's 
seminar  were  Gordon 
Chambers  '90,  who  is 
now  an  editor  at  Essence: 
Andrew  Corsello  '90,  a 
writer  at  GQ:  Kermit  Pat- 
tison  '90,  who  became  a 
reporter  for  the  Los  Ange- 
les Daily  News;  and  Vernon  Silver  '91,  a 
former  Brawn  Daily  Herald  editor  who  has 
covered  Cuba  as  a  freelance  journalist. 

After  graduating,  Rohde  moved  to 
New  York  City  and  took  internships 
and  low-level  jobs  at  such  places  as  the 
I  'illage  I  bice  and  ABC  News's  World  Sews 
Tonight.  But  working  at  ABC  was  unsatis- 
factory. As  a  production  secretary  for  the 
news  show's  investigative  unit,  Rohde  did 
little  more  than  answer  phones.  By  the 
summer  of  1991,  he'd  decided  he  wanted 
to  be  out  reporting.  In  July  he  applied  for 
a  visa  to  teach  English  in  Lithuania,  hop- 
ing he  could  also  report  newspaper  stories 
from  there.  He  sent  letters  to  the  Asso- 
ciated Press  and  the  New  York  Times,  but 
they  were  uninterested  in  an  inexperi- 
enced reporter  who  did  not  even  speak 
Russian.  Then  on  August  t8  the  KGB 
attempted  to  overthrow  Soviet  President 
Mikhail  Gorbachev."!  answer  the  phone  at 


X 


I  <■    •    I  AN  U  AR1     FEBRUARY     I  9  9  X 


World  News  Tonight,"  Rohde  recalls,  "and 
it's  Bernard  Gwertzman,  who  was  then 
the  foreign  editor  at  the  Times.  He  says, 
'You  really  got  this  visa?  How  soon  can 
you  leave?'  I  had  just  turned  twenty-four." 

In  Lithuania  and  Latvia,  Rohde  wrote 
for  the  Associated  Press  and  published 
two  stories  in  the  New  York  Times,  one 
for  the  business  section  and  one  for  the 
sports  section.  It  was  not  an  auspicious 
debut:  "They  had  to  run  a  correction  for 
the  sports  story,"  he  says.  Lonely,  frus- 
trated with  the  hit-or-miss  lite  ot  a  tree- 
lance  reporter  in  a  foreign 
country,  Rohde  returned  to 
the  United  States  and  spent 
the  next  year  at  a  series  of 
menial  jobs  and  unsuccessful 
attempts  at  breaking  into  jour- 
nalism. He  was  finally  hired 
in  June  1993  by  the  Philadel- 
phia Inquirer  as  part  of  a  corre- 
spondent program  that  was, 
Rohde  says,  "a  glorified  in- 
ternship." He  began  covering 
school  boards  in  Bucks  County. 

A  year  later,  Rohde  became 
a  copyeditor  at  the  Boston 
offices  ot  the  Christian  Science 
Monitor,  spending  much  of  his 
spare  time  reporting  any  sto- 
ries he  could  to  get  his  byline 
in  the  paper.  After  only  five 
months,  Rohde  applied  for  the  vacant 
job  of  Eastern  European  correspondent. 
When  the  newspaper's  first  choice  turned 
it  down,  the  job  was  Rohde's.  In  Novem- 
ber 1994,  he  was  on  his  way  to  Bosnia. 

n  the  months  following  his 
August  18,  1995,  Monitor  account 
of  what  he'd  seen  in  Nova  Ka- 
saba,  Rohde  visited  Bosnian  refu- 
gee camps  to  interview  survivors 
about  what  happened.  When  he  showed 
the  school  diploma  he  had  found  on  the 
ground  in  Nova  Kasaba  to  the  refugees, 
they  directed  him  to  the  brother  of  the 
boy  named  on  it.  The  man  blanched  and 
disappeared  into  the  crowd.  Someone 
explained  that  the  young  man  whose 
name  was  on  the  diploma  had  been  miss- 
ing since  the  fall  of  Srebrenica. 

Rohde  then  traveled  to  the  Hague  to 
check  the  survivor  accounts  of  systematic 
slaughter  against  those  gathered  by  offi- 
cials   of  the    International    War    Crimes 


Tribunal.  On  October  2,  the  Monitor  pub- 
lished a  long  page-one  "Monitor  Exclu- 
sive" by  Rohde  titled  "Bosnia  Muslims 
Were  Killed  by  the  Truckload."  In  it 
Rohde  detailed  what  nine  survivors  of 
the  massacres  had  independently  told  him 
about  the  days  following  the  fall  of  Sre- 
brenica. A  sidebar  also  reported  that  some 
of  the  survivors  saw  Serbian  General 
Ratko  Mladic  at  the  execution  sites. 

Despite  the  explosive  nature  of  Rohde's 
reporting,  the  article,  to  his  surprise,  met 
with  public  indifterence.  "It  was  not  even 


The  fall  of  Srebrenica  has  emerged 
as  one  of  the  great  controversies  - 
and  mysteries  -  of  the  war  in  Bosnia. 
. . .  All  sides  in  the  brutal  war  - 
including  many  Western  and  U.N. 
officials  -  have  resolutely  convinced 
themselves  that  they  are  blameless 
and  the  other  side  is  guilty. 

■  from  Endgame 


picked  up  by  the  wire  services,"  Rohde 
says.  "I  was  incredibly  frustrated."One 
person  did  respond,  though.  A  U.S.  intel- 
ligence source  revealed  to  Rohde  the  ex- 
istence of  additional  suspected  mass  graves 
whose  locations  were  still  secret,  out  ot 
fear  that  the  Bosnian  Serbs  might  tamper 
with  them  before  investigators  arrived. 
He  then  handed  Rohde  a  topographic 
map  on  which  the  suspected  graves  were 
marked.  Rohde,  meanwhile,  had  heard 
that  the  Washington  Post  and  New  York 
Times  were  sending  reporters  to  the  same 
camps  to  interview  survivors  from  Sre- 
brenica. Afraid  he  was  losing  the  story, 
Rohde  made  a  bold  and  possibly  foolish 
decision:  to  reenter  Serb-controlled  Bos- 
nia and  look  for  the  additional  graves. 

Rohde  readily  admits  that  his  motives 
for  going  back  into  Bosnia  were  not 
entirely  noble.  On  the  one  hand,  spurred 
on  by  the  sense  of  moral  justice  that 
his  father  had  hammered  into  him,  he 
wanted    to    find    evidence    that    would 


finally  awaken  the  world  to  the  horrors  of 
Srebrenica.  "But  being  no  saint,"  he  adds, 
"1  decided  to  go  in  alone."  Doing  so, 
despite  the  dangers,  was  the  only  way  he 
could  ensure  that  the  new  grave  sites 
would  be  his  story  exclusively,  as  he 
explained  on  the  evening  of  October  28, 
1995,  to  his  roommate,  Kit  Roane,  who 
was  freelancing  in  Eastern  Europe  for  the 
NcwYorkTimes.L'l  was  just  so  nervous,"  he 
recalls.  "I  was  blacklisted  in  Serbia,  after 
all.  So  I  told  Kit  I  was  going  in  the  fol- 
lowing day.  He  said,  'It's  crazy  to  go  alone. 
Let  me  come.  I  won't  do  any 
stories.' "  Rohde  said  no.  "I 
knew,"  he  says  now,  "that  even 
if  our  stories  came  out  at  the 
same  time,  the  news  would  be 
that  the  New  York  Times  found 
the  graves." 

On  October  29,  in  a  rental 
car  from  Austria,  Rohde  en- 
tered Serbian  territory  111 
Bosnia  with  a  camera  and 
film  hidden  in  the  dashboard, 
the  topographic  map  marking 
the  grave  sites,  and  an  old 
entry  permit  on  which  he 
had  altered  the  dates.  That 
same  morning,  Nen'York  Times 
reporter  Stephen  Engleberg 
published  his  own  story  about 
the  Srebrenica  survivors.  The 
competition  was  catching  up. 

Rohde  drove  without  incident  to 
the  villages  of  Lazete  and  Grbavci,  near 
Srebrenica.  What  he  saw  there  exactly 
matched  the  descriptions  survivors  had 
given  him  a  few  weeks  before.  At  the 
grave  sites  were:  a  pile  of  civilian  clothes,  a 
jacket  in  whose  pocket  was  a  civilian  I.D 
card  with  a  Srebenica  address,  a  crutch, 
three  canes,  and  what  appeared  to  be 
human  bones. 

That  afternoon,  while  preparing  to 
photograph  the  bones  at  an  earthen  dam 
in  Grbavci,  he  suddenly  heard  a  voice 
shout  in  Serbo-Croatian:  "Don't  move! 
Don't  move!" 

Rohde  turned  to  see  an  old  man 
pointing  a  rifle  at  him,  the  same  man  he 
had  earlier  noticed  in  the  distance  and 
mistaken  for  a  farmer.  He  now  realized 
the  man  was  a  soldier  assigned  to  guard 
the  area.  "I'm  lost!"  Rohde  yelled  back 
in  Serbo-Croatian. "I'm  lost!" 

It  was  no  good:  Rohde  was  captured 


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47 


and     taken     to     a     nearby     guardhouse.       says.  "I  admit  I  was  in  a  certain  amount  of 
Although  he  had  taken  the  precaution  of      danger,    but    it's    a    former    communist 


taxing  his  editor  in  Boston  the  details  of 
what  he  was  about  to  do  —  he  sent  them 
when  he  knew  she  would  be  home  asleep 
and  unable  to  stop  him  -  for  the  next  five 
days  the  Bosnian  Serbs  denied  any 
knowledge  ot  where  he  was.  Rohde 
believes  they  were  delaying  until  they 
could  get  the  film  in  his  camera  devel- 
oped and  ascertain  what  he  was  up  to. 
Their  greatest  fear  was  not  that  he  was 
photographing  grave  sites,  but  that  he  was 
a  spy  searching  for  military  intelligence. 

Rohde  insists  that,  despite 
a  vigorous  interrogation  by  a 
man  named  Marco  and  a 
night  when  he  was  deprived 
of  all  sleep,  his  Bosnian  Serb 
captors  treated  him  well. 
Some  guards  implied  he 
would  be  killed,  but  others 
whispered  that  he  would  be 
fine.  Thanks  to  the  efforts  of 
Rohde's  editors,  the  Commit- 
tee to  Protect  Journalists,  and, 
above  all,  his  family  (eleven  of 
whom  flew  to  Dayton,  Ohio, 
to  plead  Rohde's  case  with 
Richard  Holbrooke  '62,  who 
was  negotiating  the  peace 
terms  later  known  as  the  Day- 
ton Accords),  Rohde  was 
released  after  ten  days.  On  November  16, 
he  published  a  Monitor  "Investigative 
Report"  titled  "Graves  Found  That  Con- 
firm Bosnia  Massacre." 


Two  years  later,  on  a  raw 
November  day  in  New 
York  City,  Rohde  hails  a 
taxi  near  his  East  Village 
apartment  and,  apologizing 
to  the  turbaned  driver,  asks  to  be  taken  to 
an  address  in  Flushing,  Queens.  He's 
working  on  a  new  story. 

Rohde,  a  thin  man  with  the  build  of 
the  cross-country  runner  he  was  in  high 
school,  settles  into  the  back  seat  of  the  cab 
and  talks  about  life  after  a  Pulitzer. 
I  umed  by  short,  tight  hair  and  wire- 
rimmed  glasses,  his  face  appears  angular 
and  austere  -  the  face  of  someone  who 
says  he  was  "too  serious"  at  Brown.  He 
speaks  m  a  soft  voice,  but  his  words  are 
direct  and  passionate.  "Please  don't  make 
too   much   of  what    I   did   111   Bosnia,"  he 


country.  Things  are  still  tightly  controlled. 
I  think  it  would  have  been  more  danger- 
ous to  be  looking  for  a  grave  in  Missis- 
sippi in  i960  than  in  Bosnia  in  1995." 

Rohde  then  explains  that  in  January 
1996,  when  he  was  looking  to  write  an 
expanded  account  of  what  happened  to 
the  Muslims  of  Srebrenica,  only  three 
small  book  publishers  were  interested. 
Bosnia  was  old  news.  In  April,  however, 
the  Pulitzer  Prize  was  announced,  "and  I 
got  letters  from  publishers  who'd  rejected 


Based  on  the  ICRC  [International 
Committee  of  the  Red  Cross]  figure, 
nearly  3,000  men  were  summarily 
executed  and  over  4,000  hunted 
down  like  animals . . .  Srebenica  is 
unique  because  of  the  international 
community's  role  in  the  tragedy. 

■  from  Endgame 


my  book  proposal,  saying,  'If  you  ever 
decide  to  write  a  book  about  Bosnia 
He  ignored  their  offers  and  stayed  with 
Farrar,  Straus  and  Giroux,  one  of  the 
firms  that  had  welcomed  his  proposal 
before  the  Pulitzer. 

The  result.  Endgame:  The  Betrayal  and 
Fall  of  Srebrenica,  Europe's  Worst  Massacre 
Since  World  War  II,  was  published  last  year 
to  nearly  unanimous  praise.  In  the  New 
York  Daily  News,  David  Rieff,  himself  the 
author  ot  a  book  about  Bosnia,  called  it  "a 
superb  job  ot  investigative  journalism," 
and  the  New  York  Times's  Anthony  Lewis 
recommended  Endgame  to  "anyone  who 
does  not  know  why  we  should  care  about 
Bosnia." 

Writing  the  book,  Rohde  says, 
changed  his  view  of  what  he  had  reported 
only  a  few  months  before.  "At  that  time," 
he  writes  in  the  preface,  "I  believed  Sre- 
brenica's tall  to  be  a  simple  tale  ot  victim 
and  perpetrator.  But  the  town's  tall  has 
proven  far  more  complex,  convoluted  and 


darker  than  I  expected."  Although  struc- 
tured primarily  as  the  narratives  of  seven 
people  -  two  Bosnian  Muslims,  one 
Bosnian  Serb,  one  Bosnian  Croat,  and 
two  Dutch  U.N.  peacekeepers  —  Endgame 
is  a  sprawling  tale  involving  dozens  of 
secondary  characters,  including  the  Presi- 
dent ot  the  United  States.  It  is  a  story  of 
brutality  and  moral  impotence  alleviated 
only  by  the  occasional  act  of  personal 
bravery.  By  describing  and  analyzing  the 
events  of  eleven  days  in  July  1995,  the 
book  attempts  to  answer  the  simple  ques- 
tion that  survivors  of  Srebrenica  often 
asked  Rohde  during  his  visits 
with  them:  What  happened? 
Who  betrayed  us? 

The  answers  are  almost 
unremittingly  dark.  The  safe 
area,  Rohde  believes,  was 
doomed  from  the  start.  Peace- 
keepers disarmed  the  Muslims 
in  the  safe  area,  but  were 
instructed  to  do  nothing  to 
antagonize  the  Bosnian  Serbs. 
At  the  same  time,  Bosnian 
Muslim  soldiers,  including 
their  greatest  tighter,  the  flashy 
and  probably  corrupt  Naser 
One,  were  either  absent  from 
Srebrenica  or  fought  weakly 
and  ineffectively.  The  shrewd 
Bosnian  Serbs,  meanwhile, 
sensed  the  paralysis  of  the  U.N.  peace- 
keepers and  mercilessly  exploited  it. 
Rohde  also  evaluates  the  various  conspir- 
acy theories  that  have  inevitably  arisen 
about  the  fall  of  Srebrenica.  Was  there  a 
secret  deal  by  someone  -  the  French,  the 
Bosnian  government  -  to  give  up  Sre- 
brenica in  exchange  for  an  area  near  Sara- 
jevo, for  instance?  In  the  end,  Rohde  sees 
the  fall  as  a  story  ot  incompetence  and 
international  cowardice  rather  than  one 
of  conspiracies  and  secret  deals.  It  there 
was  complicity,  it  was  of  a  far  more  subtle 
and  insidious  kind: 

"The  international  community,"  he 
writes,  "partially  disarmed  thousands  of 
men,  promised  them  they  would  be  safe- 
guarded and  then  delivered  them  to  their 
sworn  enemies.  Srebrenica  was  not  simply 
a  case  of  the  international  community 
standing  by  as  a  tar-off  atrocity  was 
committed.  The  actions  of  the  interna- 
tional community  encouraged,  aided  and 
emboldened  the  executioners." 


J.  8     ♦    JANU  A  R  Y      I   I    1!  K  l    A  l(  Y      I  99.S 


In  the  world  of  newspaper  journal- 
ism, the  half-life  of  a  Pulitzer  is 
measured  in  days.  Just  before  the 
prize  was  announced  in  April 
1996,  Rohde  had  accepted  a  job 
as  a  reporter  for  the  New  York  Times.  Like 
almost  all  beginning  Times  reporters, 
Rohde  works  tor  the  metro  section, 
under  the  watchful  eye  of  the  New  York 
staff.  At  least  on  the  surface,  winning  the 
Pulitzer  did  nothing  to  change  his  status 
at  the  paper;  in  fact,  he  says,  it  means  he 
has  to  work  even  harder  to  prove  he  is 
not  a  one-hit  wonder. 

Going  to  Queens  is  part  of  that  effort. 
In  Ti'messpeak,  Rohde  "does  night  cops." 
He  arrives  at  the  paper  at  7  p.m.,  and  can- 
not leave  the  building  until  his  shift  is 
done  at  2:30  a.m.  Every  half  hour  he  calls 
the  police's  public-information  officer  and 
asks    it    anything    has    happened.   When 


something  does,  Rohde  must  quickly 
either  report  the  story  from  the  building 
or  write  it  using  information  phoned  in 
to  him  from  reporters  on  the  street. 
Rohde's  biggest  break  on  night  cops  was 
the  page-one  story  he  wrote  when  fellow 
Brown  alumnus  Ted  Turner  announced 
his  Si  billion  gift  to  the  United  Nations 
on  September  18.  Fortunately  for  Rohde, 
the  announcement  was  made  at  10  p.m. 

After  Rohde  leaves  work,  he  heads 
home,  sleeps,  and  spends  many  of  his  days 
checking  out  story  ideas  in  hopes  of  get- 
ting more  stories  into  the  paper.  Today  he 
is  going  to  a  Queens  nursing  home  to 
interview  a  young  woman  who  was  para- 
lyzed from  the  neck  down  in  a  drug- 
related  shooting.  Wandering  around  the 
city,  Rohde  has  noticed  an  unusual 
number  ot  young  people  hanging  around 
neighborhoods  in  wheelchairs,  and  even- 


William  Haglund,  a  war  crimes 
investigator,  points  to  corpses 
unearthed  from  a  Nova  Kasaba  mass 
grave  in  July  1996.  Some  showed 
evidence  of  having  been  bound  and 
shot  through  the  skull. 

tually,  he  discovered  that  many 
of  them  have  been  maimed  by 
street  violence.  He  does  not  yet 
know  where  the  story  will  lead 
him,  something  he  explains  to 
the  woman  as  they  begin  talk- 
ing in  a  spare  office. 

Gradually,  prodded  by 
Rohde's  low-key,  sympathetic 
questioning,  the  woman,  who 
says  she  is  twenty-seven  years 
old,  tells  her  story.  "It  happened 
in  Forest  Hills  six  years  ago,"  she 
says.  "We  had  just  come  out  of  a 
club  from  dancing.  It  was  late  - 
2  a.m.,  4  a.m.?  I  remember  a 
white  Ford  Taurus  passed  in 
front  of  the  car,  and  then 
motorcycles  all  around.  My 
cousin  took  sixteen  bullets,  the 
driver  took  thirteen.  I  took  a  9 
millimeter  in  my  head.  I  was 
stitched  up  like  a  baseball."  The 
car,  a  brown-and-champagne 
Mercedes,  is  now  "Swiss  cheese." 
Her  friends,  the  woman  admits, 
were  players  in  the  drug  trade, 
leading  the  fast  life,  a  life  she 
loved.  Although  she  insists  she 
was  not  involved  with  drugs  herself 
Rohde  will  have  to  decide  whether  or 
not  to  believe  her. 

For  now,  though,  his  reporter's  skepti- 
cism remains  hidden,  and  he  appears  to 
genuinely  admire  the  woman  sitting  in 
front  of  him  in  a  wheelchair,  who  has 
dressed  for  him  in  her  best  suit.  "I  was 
angry  for  four-and-a-half  years,"  she  says, 
before  she  realized  she  was  "injured,  not 
dead."  Now  she  visits  schools  and  talks  to 
students,  warning  them  about  the  fast  life. 
After  almost  two  hours  of  talking  with 
Rohde,  the  woman  begins  to  tire,  pausing 
often  to  stare  out  the  office  window  at  a 
bare  locust  tree. 

"It's  a  scary  world,"  she  says  with  a 
half-smile  to  no  one  in  particular,  "but 
someone's  got  to  live  in  it." 

Rohde  nods,  looking  up  trom  his 
notes.  c\^> 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MAGAZINE    ♦    49 


Pagan's 
Progress 


Brown's  statue  of  Marcus  Aurelius  overlooking 
Lincoln  Field  turns  ninety  this  year.  A  long 
way  from  College  Hill,  one  alumnus  came  to 
a  new  appreciation  of  its  history. 


'..'.:-'.'"■'" 


BY      BRIAN      FLOCA     '  y  I 


—rem 


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JOHN    FORAS1 


inety  years  have  passed 
since  the  canvas  wrappings 
were  pulled  from  Brown's 
statue  ot  Marcus  Aurelius, 
a  gift  presented  on  behalf 
of  Moses  Brown  Ives  Goddard,  class  of 
1 854.  The  statue,  save  for  a  lack  of  gilding 
an  exact  reproduction  of  a  Roman  origi- 
nal, was  "welcomed  to  the  campus  by 
'three  long  Browns  for  Marcus  Aurelius," 
given  with  a  will  by  the  undergraduates," 
according  to  a  newspaper  account.  A  poem 
written  by  Henry  Robinson  Palmer,  class 
of  1N90,  and  read  at  the*  unveiling  ran 
along  the  lines  of: 

Teach  us,  O  Pagan,  day  by  day 
Beyond  the  campus  press  and  noise 
Through  shining  hours  and  horns  o I  gray 
The  equal  mind,  the  starlike  poise. 


The  Brown  campus  today  might  seem 
a  long  way  from  that  of  1908,  when 
alumni  and  students  were  inspired  to 
poetry  and  lusty  cheers  for  a  stoic 
philosopher.  Visit  Marcus  Aurelius  in  his 
native  Rome,  though,  and  the  ninety 
years  contract  to  a  blink. 

From  161  to  180  A. D.,  Marcus  Aurelius 
Antonius  Augustus,  whose  Meditations  is 
held  by  scholars  to  be  the  greatest  literary 
work  by  a  Roman,  ruled  an  empire  that 
stretched  from  present-day  Scotland  to 
Morocco  to  Jerusalem.  His  monumental 
bronze  statue,  cast  around  173  A.D.,  was 
lost  when  Rome  crumbled,  only  to  be 
rediscovered  in  the  early  Christian  era  by 
a  city  tired,  shrunken,  and  disease-ridden. 
It  the  Romans  had  known  whose  pagan 
image  they  had  found,  they  would  likely 


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In  his  sketchbook  last  summer,  Brian  Floca  recorded 
impressions  of  the  Piazza  del  Campidoglio  (left) 
and  its  Marcus  Aurelius  statue  (below),  a  twin  to  the 
one  behind  Sayles  Hall  at  Brown  (facing  page). 


have  melted  it  for  its  metal  at  the  first 
opportunity.  As  it  was,  they  mistook  the 
rider  for  Constantine,  the  emperor  who 
had  legalized  Christianity  in  395.  The 
misidentihed  statue  was  given  a  place 
of  prominence  in  Rome  that  it  held 
for  centuries.  Only  during  the  Renais- 
sance did  the  sculpture  regain  its  proper 
identification. 

In  1538,  Rome  began  a  renovation  of 
its  civic  heart,  the  Capitoline  Hill,  and 
installed  the  Marcus  Aurelius  statue  there 
as  a  symbol  of  the  city's  past.  In  1S4C). 
Michelangelo  began  to  redesign  the  Hill 
into  essentially  the  form  it  takes  today, 
with  Marcus  Aurelius  as  its  keystone. 

The  statue  is  best  approached  on  the 
Cordonata,  a  long,  ridged  slope  by  which 
one  ascends  the  Capitoline  Hill  toward 


the  Piazza  del  Campidoglio.  Ahead,  Mar- 
cus Aurelius  seems  to  rise  and  announce 
himself  between  the  Roman  statues  of 
Castor  and  Pollux.  This  Marcus  Aurelius 
is.  in  fact,  a  replica  of  the  original,  which 
was  moved  in  1981  to  the  safety  of  the 
nearby  Capitoline  Museum.  Installed  only 
last  summer,  the  replica  was  made  in  part 
with  measurements  Italian  experts  took  at 
Brown  in  1991.  It  is  elevated  slightly  by 
the  gently  convex  ground  of  the  piazza.  A 
swirl  of  cobblestones  arcs  the  eye  toward 
it  from  every  direction,  solidifying  its 
command  of  a  site  known  during  the 
Roman  empire  as  Caput  Mundi  -  the 
center  of  the  world. 

Overlooking  the  city  from  the  statue's 
perch  on  a  warm  summer  night,  even  a 
visitor  more  familiar  with   Lincoln   Field 


than  the  Campidoglio  might  catch  him- 
self considering  an  old  Roman  supersti- 
tion. The  world  will  end,  it  worries,  when 
after  these  many  centuries  the  last  bits  of 
gilt  finally  flake  from  Marcus  Aurelius.  c^; 

Brian  floca  'gi  is  the  author  and  illustrator  of 
The  Frightful  Story  of  Harry  Walfish  and 
the  illustrator  of  several  other  children's  books. 


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yssef 


Interstate  95  is  the  border,  and  two  carloads  of 
Brown  students  have  crossed  it.  For  now  they're 
anonymous  inside  compact  cars  cruising  up 
and  down  the  streets  of  what  is,  for  most  of 
them,  terra  incognita,  but  soon  they'll  be  fully 
engaged  with  this  neighborhood.  The  students  stare 
as  they  pass  aging  triple-deckers,  vacant  lots,  corner 
bodegas,  renovated  Greek  Revivals,  and  clusters  of 
low-income  housing. 

Driving  the  students  on  an  introductory  tour  of 

South  Providence  this  September  day  are  a  Brown 

professor,  sociologist   Hilary   Silver,  and   a   student, 

Thabiti  Brown  '98.  The  two  are  as  different  from 

one    another    as    temperament, 

race,  age,  gender,  and   experi- 

What  happens  When  a  ence   allow.  A   dynamo   whose 

.  dark-red  hair  flies  like  a  pen- 

high-intensity  sociologist      nant  Sllver  1S  a  tenured  whlte 

.        .     .  professor  in  the  prime  of  her 

and  a  student  team  up         F        „        .         ,    .  c. 

career.  Brown  is  a  male  African- 
tO  reinvent  a  COUrse?  American  senior  given  to  baggy 

jeans  and  wry  smiles. 

Professor  Hilary  Silver's  °ver  tne  next  tnree  months 

this  odd  couple  will  undertake 
Undergraduates  in  an  odyssey  far  more  ambitious 

than    a    motor    tour:    together 
Urban  Studies  187  found         they'll    attempt    to     open    the 

often  arcane  realm  ot  academic 
themselves  far  OUtSlde  scholarship    to    sixteen    Brown 

students     enrolled     in     Silver's 
urban     studies     course.    Urban 
Planning  and  Public  Policy  for 
Low-Income  Minority  Neigh- 
borhoods.    Under     Sllver    and 
Brown's  direction,  the  students  will  conduct  individ- 
ual research  projects  in  South  Providence,  a  neigh- 
borhood   plagued    by    abandoned    buildings,    drug 
abuse,  and  a  lack  ot  such  basic  consumer  services  as 
banks  and  supermarkets. 

It  South  Providence  weren't  on  an  odyssey  of  its 
own  -  a  concerted  effort  to  recover  from  decades  of 
demolition,  racial  tension,  and  being  separated  from 
the  rest  of  the  city  by  I-93  -  it  would  have  no  need 
of  Sliver's  students.  Residents,  community  organiza- 
tions, and  economic-development  agencies  fre- 
quently approach  Silver  with  topics  for  research  or 
requests  tor  interns.  Ultimately,  it  is  their  needs  and 
concerns  that  frame  each  year's  version  of  Urban 
Studies  187,  which  Silver  is  teaching  for  the  sixth 
time.  The  interdependence  of  the  University  and  the 
community  and  the  enmeshing  ot  tieldwork  with 
classroom  theory  make  the  course  complex  and 
time-consuming  to  plan  and  manage.  Because  the 
syllabus  cannot  be  completely  prepared  in  advance. 


the  ivory  tower 


BY    PAMELA    PETRO    '82 


but  will  evolve  as  the  research  unfolds,  it's  a  perfect 
opportunity  for  collaboration  between  a  faculty 
member  and  a  deeply  involved  student. 

Thanks  to  the  University's  Odyssey  program, 
such  partnerships  aren't  unusual.  Established  at 
Brown  in  1986  with  funding  from  the  Ford  Founda- 
tion, Odyssey  fellowships  are  designed  to  introduce 
students  to  careers  in  academe  by  narrowing  the  gap 
between  them  and  their  professors.  Last  summer 
forty-eight  undergraduates  teamed  up  with  faculty 
to  revise  existing  course  syllabi  or  devise  new  ones. 
The  Odyssey  fellowship  funds  the  summer  collabo- 
ration and,  more  often  than  not,  allows  the  student  to 
serve  as  the  course's  teaching  assistant.  As  a  result,  stu- 
dents and  faculty  are  continually  reseeding  the  cur- 
riculum with  fresh  material  and  methods. 

Recent  projects  have  spawned  such  courses  as 
Gender  in  Modern  Chinese  History  and  a  classics 
seminar,  Ancient  Utopias  and  Imaginary  Places.  "By 
taking  ownership  of  the  curriculum,"  says  Associate 
Dean  of  the  College  Karen  Romer,  "students  get  a 
window  into  the  other  side  of  the  educational 
process.  They  gain  an  understanding  of  the  immense 
amount  of  work  that  goes  into  course  preparation." 

Thabiti  Brown  was  teaching  in  a  Harlem, 
New  York,  school  last  spring  through  the 
University's  Urban  Education  Semester 
program  when  he  ran  into  Silver,  his  former 
professor,  and  learned  she  was  living  across  the  street 
trom  him.  Silver,  who  was  on  a  medical  leave  at  the 
time,  had  been  wondering  how  she  would  manage  to 
put  together  a  new  unit  of  Urban  Studies  187  for  the 
fall  semester.  Thabiti  Brown's  opportune  appearance 
inspired  Silver  to  apply  for  an  Odyssey  fellowship. 

"I  wasn't  immediately  wowed  by  the  idea," 
Brown  recalls  of  Silver's  proposal  that  they  collabo- 
rate, "but  it  was  the  teaching  component  that  won 
me  over."  Committed  to  a  career  in  urban  education, 
Brown  plans  to  get  a  master's  degree  and  teach  in  an 
inner-city  public  school  for  three  to  five  years  before 
going  on  to  a  Ph.D.  and  college-level  teaching.  "Lots 
of  kids  don't  take  advantage  of  the  University's 
opportunities  to  build  a  relationship  with  someone 
like  Professor  Sllver,"  notes  Brown.  "This  is  a  unique 
chance."  Having  let  himself  be  talked  into  applying 
for  the  fellowship  with  Silver,  he  spent  last  summer 
developing  research  internships  for  her  students. 

It's  now  three  weeks  into  the  course,  and  while 
some  ot  the  projects  have  jelled,  a  few  have 
foundered.  Those  taking  Urban  Studies  187  must 
spend  ten  hours  a  week  for  six  weeks  working  in  the 
field  and  keeping  a  detailed  journal.  Each  project 


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culminates  in  a  paper  that  becomes  part  ot  Silvers 
ongoing  study  of  South  Providence.  At  weekly  three- 
hour  seminars,  students  make  presentations  on  their 
work  as  it  relates  to  the  topic  ot"  the  week  -  for 
example,  land  use  and  housing,  small  businesses,  wel- 
fare and  social  services,  or  education  and  sports. 

This  night,  Matthew  Maloney  '98  reports  that  his 
internship  has  fallen  through.  Silver  suggests  a 
replacement  topic:  the  social  clubs  of  South  Provi- 
dence. She  tells  Maloney  that  while  she's  been  able  to 
survey  public  institutions  in  the  neighborhood,  such 


JUTCI 


as  businesses,  city  authorities,  and 
community  development  corpora- 
tions, so  tar  she  has  found  it  nearly 
impossible  to  tap  into  South  Provi- 
dence's social  network.  In  part,  this 
is  because  much  ot  it  centers 
around  ad  hoc  social  clubs,  where 
members  gather  to  drink  beer, 
shoot  pool,  and  talk  about  neigh- 
borhood matters.  Almost  all  such 
clubs  arc  closed  to  outsiders. 

Brown  doesn't  like  Silver's  sug- 
gestion; he  believes  such  fieldwork 
borders  on  intrusion.  "I'd  be  profoundly  uncomfort- 
able there  myself,"  he  says,  "and  I'm  black."  Silver 
leaves  the  choice  up  to  the  blond,  blue-eyed  Mal- 
oney.  "look."  she  says,  "the  first  principle  is  Do  no 
Ihinii.  And  it  the  situation  gets  bad,  get  out.  Don't 
push  the  envelope." 


Emily  Adler  '98  met 
with  owners  of  such 
South  Providence 
businesses  as  Joyeria 
Sonnia's,  a  Broad 
Street  jewelry  store. 


On  a  Monday  afternoon  in  late  October, 
Brown  is  in  front  of  the  sociology  depart- 
ment's photocopier,  surrounded  by  a  knot 
ot  anxious  students.  Silver  is  running  late 
for  class.  Some  minutes  later  she  arrives,  out  of 
breath,  and  the  class  lurches  into  high  gear. 

One  student  working  with  SWAP  (Stop  Wasting 
Abandoned  Property)  is  examining  elderly  housing; 
Sliver  fires  off  the  name  of  a  Brown  professor  who 
is  an  expert  on  aging.  She  tosses  a  different  name 
to  a  woman  whose  project  involves  working  with 
the  South  Side  Community 
Land  Trust  (an  organization 
that  converts  vacant  lots  into 
gardens)  and  suggests  a  text 
she  should  read.  Names  and 
book  titles  seem  to  fly 
straight  from  Silver's  memory 
into  spiral  notebooks. 

Meghan  Madeira  '98  is 
interning  with  the  Provi- 
dence Housing  Authority, 
working  on  a  feasibility  study 
designed  to  lure  a  super- 
market to  the  neighborhood. 
In  preparation  tor  this  pro- 
ject, over  the  summer  Thabiti 
Brown  studied  how  a  Bedford- 
Stuyvesant,  New  York,  com- 
munity development  corpora- 
tion persuaded  the  Pathmark 
supermarket  chain  to  open 
a  branch  in  a  low-income 
neighborhood.  His  ground- 
work, Madeira  says,  helped  her  through  some  rough 
spots  in  the  course. 

"At  first,  we  were  all  really  nervous,"  recalls 
Madeira.  "Ten  hours  a  week  is  a  lot;  you  get  intim- 
idated." Brown,  she  says,  helped  the  students  over 
their  jitters.  "He  understands  what  it's  like  to  be  an 
undergraduate,"  she  says, "but  he  also  really  knows  his 
stuff.  Thabiti  is  a  link  between  our  world  and  Pro- 
fessor Silver's." 

Emily  Adler  '98  is  working  for  a  coalition  that 
promotes  the  growth  of  small  businesses  on  Broad 
Street.  South  Providence's  commercial  arterv.  Her 
project  entails  surveying  every  restaurant,  dry  cleaner, 
liquor  store,  hair  salon,  and  auto-parts  shop  -  each  of 
the  more  thaii  300  viable  enterprises  on  the  street  - 
and  developing  a  citywide  publicity  plan  for  them. 
Most  of  the  owners  have  responded  enthusiastically 
to  her  questions,  for  which  she  credits  her  ability  to 
speak  Spanish  and  her  easygoing  attitude.  But  many 


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Matt  Maloney  '98  hung 
out  at  this  social  club, 
but  his  research  soon 
raised  suspicions  among 
the  clientele. 


times,  Adler's  youth  and  appearance  work  against  her. 
"Latino  men  often  don't  take  me  seriously,"  she  says. 
She  was  even  chased  out  of  one  shop. 

Such  experiences  bring  Adler  to  talk  with  Brown 
during  his  office  hours.  "Thabiti  is  so  calm,"  she  says 
gratefully.  "I  appreciate  the  different  perspective  he 
brings  to  class.  I'm  on  his  side  of  the  table  when  it 
comes  to  fieldwork  -  you  know,  don't  be  intrusive. 
I  don't  think  I  could  be  doing  Matt's  internship." 


att  Maloney  has  persevered  with  the 
social-clubs  project,  but  his  report  to 
the  class  is  troubling.  He  relates  that 
he  had  begun  going  to  a  club  on 
weekends  to  have  a  few  beers  and  to  chat  with  the 
members,  all  of  whom  are  African  American.  At  first, 
Maloney  tells  the  class,  people  were  nice.  A  couple  of 
regulars  told  him  not  to  worry,  even  though  others 
were  beginning  to  question  what  he  was  doing  there. 
"We've  got  your  back,"  his  new  friends  said.  Maloney 
tried  to  play  up  the  historical  aspect  of  his  project,  to 
put  the  focus  on  the  building  rather  than  the  social 
interaction  inside  it.  But  his  strategy  didn't  work. 

"I  know  they  think  I'm  a  cop,"  Maloney  says. 
After  he  was  verbally  accosted  a  few  times,  even  his 
friends  at  the  club  advised  him  to  get  out. "I'm  begin- 
ning to  feel  really  uncomfortable  there,"  he  confesses. 
"You're  not  going  back,"  Silver  responds  at  once. 
She  adds  to  the  class,  "I  hope  you  know  that  if  you 
ever  have  any  problem  in  the  field,  I'm  available 
twenty-four  hours." 


A  classmate  asks  Maloney  what  he  learned.  "That 
there  are  places  to  chill  in  urban  ghettos,"  he 
responds  thoughtfully.  "That  the  idea  that  because 
places  like  South  Providence  are  isolated  from  the 
rest  of  the  city  means  they're  isolated  internally  as 
well  isn't  true.  It's  a  vibrant  community." 

It's  Thabiti  Brown  s  day  to  teach  the  course  sec- 
tion on  urban  education,  and  he  splits  the  stu- 
dents into  three  groups  based  on  the  nature  of 
their  internships  and  asks  them  to  design  a  high 
school  for  South  Providence.  The  students  part  like 
amoebas  and  get  to  work.  Silver  looks  on  like  a 
proud  parent. 

"Thabiti  dislikes  traditional  teaching,"  she  notes. 
"But  his  approach  is  very  clever.  I've  been  pushing 
him  to  think  about  his  pedagogical  goals  from  the 
time  we  began  our  Odyssey  on  my  laptop  computer, 
back  in  my  apartment  in  New  York." 

One  day  at  mid-semester  Silver  is  poring  over 
held-method  notes  from  her  own  student  days.  Stuck 
among  them  is  a  letter  from  her  professor  at  Colum- 
bia, the  renowned  sociologist  Herbert  Gans,  praising 
her  work  as  his  teaching  assistant. 

"See,  Thabiti?"  Silver  says.  "Maybe  I'll  write  this 
for  you  one  day." 

"Maybe,"  he  replies.  Then  he  adds  with  a  grin, 
"I'll  deserve  it."  o^> 

Pamela  Petro  is  a  freelance  writer  in  Providence. 


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PORTRAIT 


JANET     YELLEN    '67 


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Clinton's  Budgeteer 


ill  Clinton,  sitting  in  an  upholstered 
chair  by  the  fireplace  in  the  Oval 
Office,  listens  intently  as  Janet  Yellen,  the 
chair  ot  his  Council  ot  Economic  Advis- 
ers (CEA),  discusses  whether  Asia's  weak 
economies  will  have  a  serious  drag  effect 
on  the  United  States.  They  won't,  she 
predicts  during  this  meeting  in  October. 
Other  members  of  the  president's  eco- 
nomic team,  including  Vice  President 
Al  Gore  and  Treasury  Secretary  Robert 
Rubin,  weigh  in.  Then  Yellen,  a  small 
woman  engulfed  in  a  nearby  sofa,  wraps 
up  the  late-morning  briefing. 

"Face  time"  with  the  President  is 
prized  inside  the  White  House,  and  as 
lead  author  of  the  CEA's  weekly  ten-page 
economic  briefing,  Yellen  is  guaranteed  a 
regular  spot  on  Clinton's  calendar.  Even 
when  the  President  cannot  sit  down  with 
Yellen,  he  plows  through  her  briefing. 
often  asking  her  to  get  him  more  infor- 
mation on  the  topics  addressed  in  her 
dense,  engagingly  written  reports. 

In  a  workplace  regularly  consumed 
with  affairs  ot  the  hour,  Yellen  and  her 
thirtv-five-member  staff"  are  responsible 
for  big-picture  economic  assessments:  the 
Strength  ot  the  recovery,  for  example,  or 
the  impact  ot  reforming  social  programs. 
"When  the  President  is  talking  to  mem- 
bers of  Congress  about  the  causes  of  job 
dislocation  or  the  decline  in  welfare  rolls, 
he  repeatedly  cites  Janet's  analyses,"  says 
Gene  B.  Sperling,  director  ot  the  National 
Economic  Council.  "She's  the  voice  ot 
analytical  integrity  that  everyone  on  the 
economic  team  looks  to  when  we  deal 
with  difficult  issues." 

It's  a  job  Yellen  never  imagined  she 
would  do  when  she  was  an  undergradu- 
ate more  than  thirty  years  ago.  She  began 
as  a  philosophy  concentrator,  but  after 
courses  with  professors  George  Borts  and 
Herschel  Grossman,  she  switched  to  eco- 
nomics. "They  taught  me  that  economics 
was  a  subject  where  a  systematic  way  of 
thinking  about  the  world  translated  into 
policy     prescriptions     with     real     social 


Thirty  years  ago,  a  young 

philosophy  concentrator  switched 

to  economics.  Now  she's  giving 

advice  in  the  White  House. 
♦ 

By  Alexis  Simendinger 
Photograph  byJohn  Eisele 

impact,"  Yellen  recalls.  "I  remember  sit- 
ting in  Herschel  Grossman's  class  and 
thinking,  'Gee,  I  didn't  realize  how  much 
influence  the  Federal  Reserve  has  on  the 
health  of  the  economy.  If  I  ever  have  a 
chance  at  public  service,  [a  Fed  post] 
would  be  a  worthwhile  thing  to  do.'  " 

In  1994,  Clinton  named  Yellen  to 
the  board  of  governors  of  the  Federal 
Reserve,  plucking  her  from  the  economics 
faculty  at  Berkeley,  where  she  had  worked 
with  the  President's  former  economic  ad- 
viser, Laura  D'Andrea  Tyson.  Yellen  was 
already  well  known  among  economists  for 
several  highly  regarded  studies  justifying 
an  activist  monetary  policy  that  she  had 
published  with  her  husband,  Brookings 
Institution  economist  George  Akerlot.  For 
any  economist,  a  job  on  the  seven-member 
Fed  board  is  a  rare  chance  to  have  a  direct 
impact  on  the  economy.  The  board  ot 
governors,  along  with  presidents  ot  the 
district  Federal  Reserve  banks,  controls 
monetary  policy  by  setting  interest  rates. 

Three  years  after  appointing  Yellen  to 
the  Fed,  Clinton  asked  her  to  chair  the 
CEA.  For  Yellen,  the  decision  to  give  up 
the  relatively  cloistered  world  ot  the 
nation's  central  bank  tor  an  office  next  to 
the  West  Wing  was  "the  chance  of  a  life- 
time. This  was  a  job  that  was  so  impor- 
tant. I  never  even  dreamed  ot  doing  it. 
But  when  the  President  asks  you  to  do 
something  and  thinks  you  can  do  it,  'yes' 
is  the  only  possible  answer." 

In  the  White  House,  politics  has  be- 
come a  bigger  part  of  Yellen's  job.  "The 


Fed  was  pure  policy,  pure  substance." 
Yellen  recalls  in  a  voice  redolent  ot  her 
native  Brooklyn.  CEA  issues  are  more 
varied  and  directly  influence  national  pol- 
icy; the  President's  economic  decision- 
making spans  everything  from  raising  or 
cutting  taxes  to  protecting  the  ozone 
layer.  With  a  Republican  majority  in 
Congress,  "some  things  that  I  might  per- 
sonally believe  are  desirable  are  just  not 
going  to  be  'on'  because  they  don't  com- 
mand sufficient  acceptance."  Yellen  says. 

One  of  Yellen's  strengths,  George 
Borts  says,  is  that  she  doesn't  wield  a 
political  agenda.  "I  think  it's  very  hard  to 
describe  her  politics,"  he  says.  "She  sees  a 
useful  role  for  economists  to  play  in  pol- 
icy, and  she  believes  in  incentives  and 
markets.  She  is  very  much  in  the  New- 
Democratic  tradition." 

Yellen  has  described  herself  as  a  "non- 
ideological  pragmatist";  she  is  influenced 
by  the  Keynesian  school  of  economics, 
which  favors  government  intervention  in 
markets  and  a  benign  attitude  toward 
moderate  inflation.  Her  philosophy  com- 
plements Clinton's  centrist  approach  to 
reducing  governments  role  while  provid- 
ing a  safety  net  of  social  programs. 

As  the  U.S.  economy  heads  toward  a 
seventh  banner  year  ot  recovery,  Yellen 
praises  the  Clinton-backed  1993  budget 
law.  which  cut  spending,  invested  in  kev 
programs,  and  raised  taxes.  "It's  not  an 
accident  that  we're  enjoying  a  strong  eco- 
nomic performance,"  she  says. 

But  even  Yellen  is  surprised  .it  how 
tame  inflation  has  been.  "Is  something 
different  happening?"  she  muses.  "I  think 
the  answer  is  yes.  We  hope  we  will  con- 
tinue the  pattern  ot  favorable  surprises, 
where  th'-e's  more  money  flowing  into 
the  Treasury  and  deficits  are  lower  than 
we  forecast."  She  won't  count  on  it. 
though.  "Our  role,"  Yellen  says,  "is  to  be 
hopeful  -  but  skeptical."  c^> 

Alexis  Simendinger  is  the  White  House  corre- 
spondent/or the  National  Journal. 


KNOWN    ALUMNI    MAGAZINE    •    57 


The  Classes 


EDITED  BY   TORRI   STILL 


1929 


Mae  Sydney  Alimena  celebrated  her  90th 
birthday  in  March  at  the  Alzheimer's  Day 
Care  Center  in  Greenwich  Village,  New  York 
City.  Her  sister,  Mildred  Sydney  Marks  '38, 
lives  in  Providence,  and  her  brother.  Miles 
Sydney  '32,  lives  in  Pawtucket,  R.I. 


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Stephen  B.  Delise  writes:  "I  was  sorry  to 
read  of  the  death  of  Harold  S.  Prescott  '30. 
We  were  roommates  for  three  years  in  Middle 
Hope  dorm.  I  lost  track  of  him  and  met  him 
after  fifty  years  at  his  home  in  Mount  Vernon, 
Mo.  At  our  reunion,  my  wife  cooked  a  lm- 
guine  and  meatball  dinner  for  all  of  us.  His 
wife,  Myrtle,  was  alive  at  the  time.  That  was 
the  last  time  I  saw  him."  Stephen  can  be  reached 
at  4552  Shoshone  Trail,  Sarasota,  Fla.  34233. 
Elisabeth  Connie  Dowd  (see  Susan 
Smith  and  Ryan  Walsh,  both  93). 


1932 


The  newly  elected  men's  class  officers  are 
Miles  Sydney,  president,  27  Nottingham 
Way,  Pawtucket,  R.I.  02860,  (401)  725-9823; 
William  R.  Goldberg,  vice  president; 
Everett  Schreiner,  secretary/treasurer;  and 
Paul  Mackesey  and  Walter  Kelley  Jr.,  co- 
treasurers.  The  new  secretary  for  the  women  is 
Elinor  L.  Martin. 


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th  Reunion 


Save  the  dates  for  the  Brown  and  Pembroke 
65th  reunion,  May  22-25.  Come  back  and 
share  the  weekend  with  old  friends  and  new. 
Contact  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863- 
1947  if  you  did  not  receive  the  fall  mailing. 

Albert  Lewitt  has  moved  to  a  retirement 
community  five  miles  trom  his  daughter, Joan. 
Tin  87  and  don't  travel."  he  writes, "even  back 
to  Nashua.  N.H.,  where  we  lived  for  more 


WHAT'S     NEW? 

Please  tend  the  latest  about  your  job,  family, 
traveb,oi  othei  news  toThe  Classes,  Brown 
Alumni  Monthly,  Box  ks'sj,  Providence, 
R.I.  02gi2;fax  (joi)  86j-gsgg;  e-mail 
B  I  \i@brownvm  brotvn.edu.  Deadline  for 
May  June  •  las.  motes :  Febru  iry  15. 


than  fifty  years."  Albert's  son,  Phillip  '63,  and 
daughter-in-law,  Fukiko,  visited  from  Kyoto, 
Japan,  last  August.  "We're  very  pleased  with 
our  children  and  grandchildren  and  very  proud 
of  Brown,"  Albert  writes.  Albert  lives  at  1301 
Nottingham  Rd.,  #B2i9,Jamesville,  N.Y.  13078. 


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The  newly  elected  men's  class  officers  are 
Jack  Skillings,  president,  7  Harlem  St.,  Rum- 
ford,  R.I.  02916,  (401)  434-7169;  and  Martin 
Tarpy.  secretary /treasurer.  The  new  women's 
officers  are  Emma  Warner  Kershaw,  presi- 
dent, 15  Hillcrest  Ave.,  Greenville,  R.I.  02828, 
(401)  949-3434;  Eleanor  McElroy  and 
Margery  Walton  Shepard,  co-secretaries; 
and  Dorothy  Rawcliffe  Brown, treasurer. 


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iU/th  Reunion 


Save  the  dates  for  our  60th  reunion.  May  22-25. 
Come  back  and  share  the  weekend  with  old 
friends  and  new.  Contact  reunion  headquar- 
ters at  (401)  863-1947  if  you  did  not  receive 
the  fall  mailing. 

Alan  Fontaine,  Westport,  Conn.,  recently 
celebrated  htty  years  as  a  photographer  with 
an  exhibition  at  a  local  art  gallery.  "It's  a  con- 
tinuation of  my  lifelong  desire  to  experiment," 
he  writes,  "starting  as  a  member  of  the  Brown 
Camera  Club  in  1936."  Alan  can  be  reached  at 
315  Main  St. .Westport  06880. 


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Margaret  Butterfield  Hyde  writes:  "Not 
enough  '40  news!  It  pays  to  write  to  the  BAM. 
Last  year,  I  had  an  exciting  letter  from  Philip 
Smith  '42  regarding  genealogy.  He  saw  the 
Butterfield  name  and  realized  that  we  were 
related  by  way  of  Benjamin  Butterfield  way 
back  to  the  seventeenth  century."  In  the  last 
few  months  Margaret  has  attended  a  meeting 
of  the  Lindbergh  Society  in  Rhinebeck,  N.Y, 
and  traveled  to  Minneapolis  (for  the  seventi- 
eth anniversary  of  Lindbergh's  flight)  and  to 
England  and  France.  She  can  be  reached  at  32 
Dublin  Rd..  Southbury,  Conn.  06488. 

Frank  W  Rollins  Jr.  writes  that  an  annual 
mini-reunion  luncheon  was  held  at  the  Uni- 
versity Club,  Providence,  on  Sept.  8.  Attendees 
included  Bert  Buxton  and  his  wife.  Lois 
Lindblom  Buxton  '43;  Ken  Clapp;  John 
McLaughry;  Frank  Rollins;John  Barrett 
'39  .uui  his  wife,  Mary;  Bill  Sheffield  '41  and 
his  wife,  Pat;  Earl  Nichols  '43  and  his  wife, 
Dorrie;  and  Fran  Parkhurst  '43  and  his  wife. 


Priscilla.  Frank  can  be  reached  at  80  Lancaster 
Ave.,  Kenttield,  Calif.  94904. 


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Bill  Allen  received  the  first  of  the  Brown 
engineering  alumni  medals  awarded  as  part  of 
the  engineering  division's  sesquicentennial 
celebration  on  Sept.  19.  Of  the  twenty-four 
men  who  received  engineering  degrees  in  1941. 
fourteen  survive:  William  F.  Allen  Jr..  Ben- 
jamin Ambrosini.John  L.  Benn.  George 
P.  Conard  Jr..  Channing  K.  DuPouy, 
Robert  W.  Griffin.  Earl  W.  Harrington. 
Richard  T.  Hauck,  Emile  A.  LeGros.  Paul 
S.  Shelton.  Leonard  T.  Lubin,  Paul  S. 
Shelton.  John  K.  Solfisburg.  Robert  S. 
Wilmot,  and  Kenneth  A.  Wood. 

Earl  Harrington  met  Harold  B.  (Hap) 
Nash  at  the  Brown-Lafayette  football  game. 
Hap  is  an  attorney  in  Dedham,  Mass.  At  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  Bar  Association  of  Nor- 
folk County.  Hap  received  the  Libby  Award, 
which  is  presented  annually  to  an  attorney 
"who  has  won  the  admiration  of  the  bar  for 
the  manner  in  which  he  has  conducted  himself 
over  his  career." 

Arnold  Eggert,  Middletown,  Conn.,  and 
his  son  Gerald  '64,  '73  Ph.D.  celebrated  the 
graduation  of  Gerald's  daughter.  Holly  Clara 
'96.  last  May. 

Robert  F.  Rapelye.  Providence,  writes, 
"I  regret  not  making  the  May  25  dedication 
of  the  new  war  memorial  .mc\  Bob  Steinsieck's 


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fine  tribute  to  his  son.  That  weekend  was  spent 
driving  to  granddaughter  Kate's  graduation 
from  Connecticut  College  and  then  on  to  New 
Hampshire  for  granddaughter  Meg's  gradua- 
tion from  Holderness  School.  Meg  is  now  a 
cadet  at  the  Coast  Guard  Academy."  Bob  spot- 
ted Austin  Volk  on  the  Arts  &  Entertainment 
network's  Biography,  which  featured  the  life  ot 
Malcolm  Forbes.  Austin,  mayor  of  Englewood, 
N.J.,  was  commenting  on  Forbes's  early  cam- 
paigns for  office  in  New  Jersey. 

Write  a  letter  to  John  Liebmann  or 
Earl  Harrington  and  include  your  news  and 
views  for  our  1998  class  newsletter.  Addresses: 
John,  1133  Park  Ave.,  New  York  City  10128; 
Earl,  24  Glen  Ave.,  Cranston,  R.I.  02905. 
—  Earl  W.  Harrington  Jr. 

Allen  R.  Ferguson.  Silver  Spring,  Md., 
reports  that  actor  Jimmy  Stewart  sent  him  a 
hand-written  note  just  a  few  weeks  before  he 
died.  "Like  me,  Mr.  Stewart  was  a  B-17  pilot 
with  European  combat  experience,"  Allen 
says.  "My  radio  operator  of  fifty-three  years 
ago  sent  him  a  copy  of  my  account  of  one  of 
our  missions  -  a  lone-wolf,  night  raid  on  the 
oil  refinery  at  Blechhainmer  in  Polish  Selisia." 


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1942 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  are  Bernard 
E.  Bell,  president.  376  Slater  Ave.,  Providence 
02906,  (401)  272-2856;  Richard  Donovan, 
vice  president;  Susan  Weatherhead,  secre- 
tary; and  Robert  Rockwell,  treasurer. 


You've  received  a  letter  about  our  reunion.  The 
magnet  on  your  refrigerator  reads  "Reunion 
Weekend  '98."  So  now  you're  reminded  that 
our  55th  reunion  will  be  on  Memorial  Day 
weekend.  Make  your  travel  plans  now  to  arrive 
on  Friday.  May  22,  and  stay  through  Monday, 
May  25,  after  the  Commencement  march  down 
the  hill.  (It  you  graduated  in  February,  you 
didn't  have  that  opportunity!)  You'll  be  greeted 
by  friendly  43ers  in  our  newly  redecorated 
class  headquarters  in  the  Wnston  Quadrangle. 
By  tour  o'clock  we  will  begin  to  assemble  for 
the  cocktail  hour.  At  six  o'clock,  it's  on  to  the 
Refectory  for  the  Brown  Bear  Buffet;  you 
might  see  friends  from  other  classes.  Then  there's 
Campus  Dance  with  the  Japanese  lanterns 
overhead,  several  orchestras  playing  (including 
big  band  music).  ,1  dance  H001  for  those  who'd 
like  to  do  a  little  jitterbugging,  and  tables 
where  we  can  sit  and  watch.  Back  at  '43  head- 
quarters, the  "afterglow"  will  be  in  full  swing. 

Day  two  starts  with  a  continental  break- 
fast at  our  headquarters.  During  the  morning 
we  can  attend  our  choice  o\  forums. The  tra- 
ditional ladies'  luncheon  at  the  Faculty  Club 
and  the  men's  luncheon  at  the  Refecton  w  ill 
be  followed  by  the  taking  of  the  official  Class 
of '43  photo.  On  Saturday  evening,  a  bus  will 
take  us  to  an  elegant  dinner  at  a  country  club 
and  then  on  to  the  Pops  Concert  under  the 
stars  on  the  Green  (which  we  used  to  call  the 
Middle  Campus). The  finale  is  another  "after- 
glow" at  our  headquarters.  Watch  this  column 


Warren  P.  Leonard  '30  of  Sag  Harbor,  New  York, 
sent  in  this  photograph  of  the  Brown  Orchestra, 
circa  1927-28.  Leonard,  at  far  right  in  the  first 
row,  was  the  orchestra's  first  flutist. 

for  the  events  of  the  last  two  days  of  our  spec- 
tacular 55th  reunion.-  CarolTaylor  Carlisle 

Lois  Lindblom  Buxton  has  a  new- 
address  and  phone  number:  5809  Rattlesnake 
Hammock  Rd.,  #108,  Augusta  Woods,  Naples. 
Fla.  34104;  (941)  417-5255. 

Sherry  Foster  writes  history  articles  for 
the  East  Hampton  Independent  and  is  one  of 
fifty-two  scholars  who  contributed  to  Long 
Island  Country  Houses  e- 7 '/ini.-hi7/ifc<7s.  Her  latest 
article,  about  single  women  who  lived  in  East 
Hampton  in  the  nineteenth  century,  will  appear 
111  a  book  published  by  Hofstra  University. 

Bernice  Parvey  Solish's  son  Sam  is 
president  of  the  Young  Physician's  Group  of 
the  American  Medical  Association.  Bernice 
and  her  husband.  George,  traveled  to  Eastern 
Europe  last  summer.  -  Carol  Taylor  Carlisle 

Marguerite  Connelly  Carroll  can  be 
reached  at  10138  42nd Terr.  S.,  Boynton 
Beach,  Fla.  33436.  She  would  enjoy  hearing 
from  anyone  111  the  area. 

John  W.  Mayhew  and  Shirley  Walling 
Mayhew  '48  celebrated  fifty  scars  of  111.11 1  iage 
on  Sept.  6. Their  three  children  threw  a  party 
at  the  home  of  their  daughter.  Deborah  '73, 
111  WestTisbury,  Mass.  Among  those  attending 
were  June  Miller  Wilbur  '47  and  Paul  W. 
Cook  '4S.  fohn  and  Shirley  can  be  reached  at 
Music  St.,  P.O.  Bon  51, WestTisbury,  Mass.  02575. 


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1944 


Phyllis  Bidwell  Oliver  writes:  "My  husband 
and  I  had  a  wonderful  two  weeks  in  Alaska 
last  spring.  One  highlight  was  a  visit  to  the 
Raptor  Center  in  Sitka,  where  injured  or  sick 
bald  eagles  are  nursed  back  to  health."  Phyllis 
can  be  reached  at  3  Cadwell  Rd.,  Bloomtield, 
Conn.  06002. 

Kenneth  A.  McMurtrie  and  his  wife. 
Carolyn,  who  are  building  a  home  in  Ocala, 
Fla.,  traveled  in  Europe  for  almost  two  months 
last  year.  In  October  they  left  for  a  fifty-three- 
day  cruise  around  South  America  on  the  Regal 
Empress.  Kenneth  can  be  reached  at  507  Long 
Reach  Dr..  Salem.  S.C.  29676. 


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Florence  Asadorian  Dulgarian  was  one  of 

six  "notable  women"  featured  in  the  commem- 
orative calendar  for  the  sesquicentennial  cele- 
bration of  Brown's  engineering  division.  Flo- 
rence was  a  Pratt  and  Whitney  scholarship 
recipient  and  one  of  the  first  women  accepted 
to  the  engineering  program  at  Brown. 

Dorothy  Kay  Fishbein  has  been  elected 
to  a  two-year  term  as  president  of  the  Pem- 
broke Club  of  Providence.  In  addition  to  its 
regular  schedule  ot  lecture  meetings,  the  club 
continues  to  offer  its  popular  seminar  series  in 
the  tall  and  spring. 


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James  S.  Siegal  writes:  "Happy  to  report  that 
I  continue  to  travel.  I  sailed  down  the  Turkish 
coast  and  into  the  Aegean  Sea  -  Istanbul  to 
Athens.  I  rested  up  atVouhagmeni  and  then 
flew  to  Lisbon  to  join  friends  on  tour  through 
Portugal  and  Spam.  I  hope  to  visit  Barcelona 
and  Santiago  de  Compostela  in  the  spring." 
James  welcomes  classmates  to  call  him  at  (714) 
838-7828  and  arrange  a  visit  to  his  home  111 
Tustm.  Calif 


1947 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  include  Roger 
D.Williams, president,  40  Carman  Back  Rd.. 
Barnngton,  N.H.  03825,  (603)  664-2S03  or 
(508)  465-11477. 

Ray  Elias.  Jefferson.  Ohio,  and  his  wife, 
Margery  Moore  Elias  '4N.  traveled  to  Paris 
to  give  his  original  wallpaper  to  Bibliotheque 
Forneya  graphic  art  museum  and  library.  Ray 
is  owner  of  Dezign,  which  creates  original 
wallpaper, 


1948© 


th  Reunion 


Youi  reunion  1  ommittee  is  working  very  hard 
10  create  a  tun  and  informative  event  lor  the 
50th  anniversary  of  our  graduation.  If  you 
hurry,  it  is  not  too  late  to  return  the  reunion 


Looking  Back 


Mr.  Chips  in 
the  Making 

A  future  Brown  professor  has  some 
undergraduate  fun  for  the  camera. 

"No,"  writes  Melissa  Tinker  Howland  '48,  "it 
is  not  the  elusive  Professor  Carberry." 

The  gent  posing  in  ersatz  professorial 
mufti  was,  rather,  R.  Gale  Noyes  '21,  mas- 
querading as  a  member  of  the  faculty  while 
still  an  undergraduate.  Howland,  who  was 
Noyes's  goddaughter,  found  this  photo- 
graph while  going  through  files  belonging 
to  her  late  father,  Harold  Tinker  '21,  a  life- 
long friend  of  Noyes.  Noyes  eventually  did 
join  the  Brown  faculty,  becoming  "a  favorite 
English  professor  of  decades  of  Brown 
and  Pembroke  students,"  Howland  says. 

After  graduating  from  Brown  with  bach- 
elor's and  master's  degrees  in  1921,  Noyes 
went  to  Harvard  for  a  Ph.D.  He  returned 
to  Brown  in  1938  to  teach  Restoration  drama 


and  eighteenth-century  fiction.  He  became 
a  full  professor  in  1951  and  died  in  Provi- 
dence in  1961. 

"His  classes  were  always  full,"  noted 
the  Brown  Daily  Herald  at  the  time  of 
Noyes's  death,  "not  only  with  English  majors 
but  also  with  students  representing  all  other 
disciplines.  They  took  his  course  to  gain  an 
insight  into  life  by  enjoying  his  erudition, 
his  sense  of  humor,  and  his  vast  humanity." 
-  Anne  Diffily 


yearbook  survey  form  that  you  should  have 
received  in  the  mail.  A  complete  yearbook 
will  greatly  enrich  everyone's  reunion  experi- 
ence. In  the  event  that  you  have  not  received 
our  mailings,  please  call  reunion  headquarters 
at  (401)  863-1947. Think  spring-  and 
reunion!  -  Brcffny  Feely  Wahh 


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1949 


The  class  of '49  will  have  a  mini-reunion  - 
lunch,  a  class  meeting,  and  planning  for  the 
soth  reunion  -  on  May  6  at  the  DeCordova 
Museum  in  Lincoln,  Mass. The  museum  will 
be  exhibiting  watercolors  by  artist  Marty 
Fox  Rawls.  Look  tor  more  information  to 
follow.-  Marilyn  Silverman  Ehrenhaus 

Adele  Anthony  (see  John  E.  Bauman 
•8t). 

John  T.  Townsend  turned  70  on  |ulv  25. 
He  is  professor  emeritus  at  the  Episcopal 
Divinity  School  and  is  teaching  Jewish  studies 
at  I  larvard  Divinity  School.  He  has  a  new  book 
from  Ktav  Publishing  House:  a  translation,  with 
notes,  of  Midrash  Tanhuma  (S.  Buber  Recension), 
Vol.  II: Exodus  and  Leviticus.  |ohn  can  be  reached 
at  j townsend(S  div.harvard.edu. 


Ellsworth  Shiebler  (lack  Ellsworth)  recently 
was  honored  for  his  fiftieth  anniversary  in 
radio  and  his  75th  birthday.  At  a  dinner-dance 
on  June  29.  Suffolk  County  (N.Y.)  district 
attorney  James  Catterson  presented  him  with 
a  plaque  for  Ins  work  asWLIM  radio's  CEO, 
president,  and  general  manager.  More  than  200 
fans,  friends,  and  family  members  attended  the 
celebration.  Other  tributes  included  plaques, 
scrolls,  and  letters  from  President  Clinton.  U.S. 
Senator  Alphonse  D'Amato,  Frank  Sinatra, 
Perry  Como,  and  Johnny  Matins. Jack  began 
his  radio  career  at  Brown's  WBRU  in  1947  and 
later  worked  at  WHIM  in  Providence  before 
moving  to  Long  Island.  He  has  no  plans  to  retire. 


1951 


Alan  Calnan  writes:  "Having  missed  all 
reunions  tor  the  past  thirty  years,  because  mosdy 
I  live  in  Belgium.  I  fully  intend  to  make  our 
soth  in  2001 .  In  the  meantime,  any  classmates 
coming  to  Belgium  will  be  welcome.   Alan 
can  be  reached  at  4s.  Rue  H.  Boulenger,  tl8o 
Brussels.  Belgium. 


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J.  Rogers  Greenlees,  Swansea,  Mass., 
attended  his  50th  class  reunion  at  Hope  High 
School  in  Providence  in  September. 

Joanne  Thompson  sold  the  twenty-five- 
acre  farm  that  had  been  in  her  family  for  sixty 
years  and  moved  into  a  three-bedroom  mod- 
ular house  two-and-a-half  miles  away.  "We 
love  it,"  she  says.  "No  maintenance,  no  lawn, 
no  wood  stove,  and  once  we  find  what's  in 
all  the  boxes,  we'll  be  fine."  Joanne  also  reports 
that  Cleo  Palelis  Hazard  and  her  husband 
stopped  by  for  a  short  visit  right  after  the 
move.  Joanne  can  be  reached  at  RR#i,  Box 
632,  Surry,  Maine  046X4. 

George  Tingley.  North  Kingstown,  R.I., 
presented  "Man  Lives  Not  by  Numbers  Alone: 
A  critique  by  an  insider,  a  former  manager 
of  operations  research,  of  the  uncritical  appli- 
cation of  the  quantitative  approach"  at  the 
37th  annual  AGIFORS  (Airline  Group  of  the 
International  Federation  of  Operational 
Research  Societies)  Symposium  in  Nusa  Dua, 
Bali.  Indonesia,  in  September. 


1952 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  are  Davies 
Bisset,  president,  246  Boston  Neck  Rd.,  Nar- 
ragansett,  R.I.  02SS2.  (401)  788-9951:  Beverly 
Calderwood  Hart,  vice  president:  Judith 
Brown,  secretary:  Fred  Gifford.  treasurer;  and 
Ed  Barry  and  Dotty  Williams  Wells,  reunion 
chairs. 

Gil  Bach  (see  Nancy  Bach  Roberts  '88). 

Skip  Danforth  (seejared  Poppel  '91). 


1953   © 


th  Reunion 


Be  sure  to  save  the  dates  May  22-25.  Plan  to 
come  back  to  Brown  for  our  45th  reunion. 
This  will  be  a  perfect  opportunity  to  rekindle 
old  friendships  and  start  new  ones.  It  you  have 
not  received  your  first  reunion  mailing,  please 
contact  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 


l955 


Alfred  H.  Phillips,  Livonia,  Mich.,  has  retired 
from  his  job  as  business  manager  of  a  General 
Motors  facility  because  of  heart  problems. 
Alfred  is  enjoying  life  and  is  involved  in  a  lot 
of  volunteer  work. 


I956 


Hank  Vandersip  and  his  wife,  Phebe  RUE 
'96.  had  the  pleasure  of  witnessing  the  awarding 
of  one  of  the  first  Brown  engineering  alumni 
medals  to  fellow  engineering  classmate  Walt 
Weber. The  awards  ceremony  took  place  .it  the 
sesquicentennial  anniversary  of  the  engineering 
division.  Walt,  a  Distinguished  University  Pro- 
fessor at  the  University  of  Michigan,  was  hon- 
ored for  his  many  contributions  to  the  field 
ot  environmental  and  water  resources  engineer- 


ing. Congratulations,  Wilt,  and  remember  -  you 
promised  to  attend  the  45th! 

A  tribute  to  John  Peterson,  class  reunion 
chair  who  passed  away  in  August,  was  held 
Sept.  6  in  John's  hometown  of  Milford,  Conn. 
Hank  Vandersip  had  the  honor  of  reading  mov- 
ing testimonials  from  Nancy  Dawn  Zarker 
Jones,  Geneva  Whitney,  and  Alan  Levenson, 
who  were  unable  to  attend.  Dazzle  Devoe 
Gidley,  Christa  Buhler  Fagerberg,  Art  Love. 
Hank  Vandersip,  and  his  wife,  Phebe.  attended, 
as  well  as  John's  boyhood  friend,  Gordon 
Perry  '55.  Gordon  delivered  a  stirring  tribute 
to  John,  one  I'm  sure  no  one  in  the  room  will 
ever  forget.  A  reception  was  held  at  the  home 
of  one  of  John's  friends,  during  which  many 
remembrances  were  shared.  It  was  a  fitting  good- 
bye to  a  true  Brown  alum.  -  Hank  I  andersip 

Henri  Leblond  retired  from  Riverside 
Junior  High  School,  East  Providence,  R.I.,  last 
year  after  thirty-eight  years.  Riverside's  class 
of  1997  dedicated  their  yearbook  to  him  with 
this  inscription:  "Those  who  knew  him  well 
will  miss  his  sense  of  humor  and  kind  words. 
He  was  a  truly  dedicated  teacher  with  a  love 
for  language  and  working  with  young  adults." 


1957 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  are  Marie 
O'Donahoe  Kirn,  president,  RR  #i,Box 
271,  Hartland.Vt.  05048,  (802)  295-2604; 
Linda  Perkins  Howard,  secretary;  George 
Rollinson,  treasurer;  Roberta  Abedon  Levin 
and  Robert  Goff,  reunion  chairs;  and  Edwin 
Cowen  and  Ardell  Kabalkin  Borodach, 
annual  giving  coordinators. 


1958     O 


th  Reunion 


A  tribute  to  our  college  days  is  being  planned, 
and  we  want  vou  to  be  there.  Save  the  dates 


May  . 


15  for  our  40th  reunion.  If  you  have 


not  yet  received  your  first  mailing,  please  con- 
tact reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 


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Virginia  Perrotti  Foley.  North  Providence, 
R.I..  traveled  to  Rome  with  the  Festival  Cho- 
rus of  Rhode  Island.  The  group  had  an  audi- 
ence with  the  Pope,  and  did  some  sightseeing 
and  touring.  Last  summer  Virginia  traveled 
to  California  to  see  her  daughter  and  brother. 
Ted  Martin  (seejared  Poppel  '91). 


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Raymond  J.  Barry,  West  Hollywood,  Calif, 
has  published  a  book.  Mother's  Sou  and  Oilier 
Plays  (Chicago  Plays).  Last  year  he  appeared  in 
Dead  Man  Walking,  directed  by  Tim  Robbins. 
Raymond  has  three  films  about  to  be  released: 
Flubber,  a  Disney  film  with  Robin  Williams; 
Warner  Brothers'  Mad  City;  and  Orion  Films' 


Best  Men.  He  performed  in  his  own  play,  Back 
When  -  BackThcn  at  the  Magic  Theatre  in  San 
Francisco  in  October  and  at  the  Theater  for 
the  New  City  in  New  York  City  in  November. 

Steven  C.  Batterman  '64  Ph.D.  has 
retired  from  full-time  teaching  and  research 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  after  thirty- 
three  years.  He  is  an  emeritus  professor  of  bio- 
engmeering  in  the  School  of  Engineering 
and  Applied  Science  and  emeritus  professor  of 
bioengmeermg  in  orthopedic  surgery  in  the 
School  of  Medicine.  Now  he  devotes  his  time 
to  his  consulting  practice  in  forensic  engi- 
neering and  biomechanics.  Steven  can  be 
reached  at  109  Charlann  Cir.,  Cherry  Hill, 
N.J.  08003;  batterman@aol.com. 

David  W.  Beach  co-edited  Musk  Theory 
in  Concept  and  Practice  (University  of  Rochester 
Press,  1997)  with  Brown  music  professor  James 
M.  Baker  and  Jonathan  W.  Bernard.  An  anthol- 
ogy of  nineteen  essays  by  leaders  in  the  field 
of  music  theory,  it  reflects  current  trends  in 
research.  David  is  dean  of  the  faculty  of  music 
at  the  University  ofToronto. 

Ronald  M.  Schnitzler  is  a  professor  of 
biological  sciences  at  Naugatuck  Valley 
Community-Technical  College  in  Waterbury, 
Conn.  His  older  daughter,  Micaela,  is  a  doc- 
toral candidate  in  oceanography  at  the  Uni- 
versity ofWashington.  His  younger  daughter, 
Aletta,  is  a  genetics  research  assistant  at  the 
Massachusetts  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary  in  Boston. 
Ronald  can  be  reached  at  75  Cobblestone 
Rd.,  Longmeadow,  Mass.  01 106. 

Arthur  F.  Tuch  (see  Geoffrey  Donoho 
'94). 

P|ft    THE 

Deep  Pockets:  Ted  Turner  '60,  founder  of 
the  CNN  cable  television  empire,  announced 
in  September  that  he  will  donate  $1  billion 
to  the  United  Nations.  The  money  will  be 
used  to  aid  refugees,  clear  landmines,  and 
fight  disease.  Former  Brown  President  Vartan 
Gregorian  attended  the  New  York  City  dinner 
at  which  Turner  made  the  announcement. 


1962 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  are  Alan 
Grace,  president,  120  Longfellow  Rd.,  Sud- 
bury, Mass.  01776,  (978)  443-9844  or  (617) 
790-3000;  Dick  Coopersmith.  vice  presi- 
dent; Dale  Burg,  secretary;  and  Nick  Angell 
and  Dale  Burg,  treasurers. 

Dale  Burg  ghostwrote  The  Money  Club 
for  Marilyn  Crockett  and  Diane Terman 
Felenstein.  Released  in  September,  the  hook 
describes  the  experiences  of  an  investment 
club  and  serves  as  a  handbook  for  women  on 
how  to  handle  their  finances.  I  )ale  writes, "It's 
gotten  a  lot  of  good  notices  111  Publishers  Weekly 


I!  N  <  1  W  N     ALUMNI     MACAZlNIi 


6  1 


The  Alumni  Association  honors 
excellence  and  service. 

A  pride  of  beaming  Brunonians  was  hon- 
ored by  the  Brown  Alumni  Association  at 
the  annual  recognition  ceremony  on  Octo- 
ber 18.  In  the  front  row  are  Brown  Bear 
Award  winners  Knight  Edwards  '45,  Claire 
Henderson  '61,  and  Roger  Simon  '61;  and  at 
right,  William  Rogers  Award  winner  and  fea- 
tured speaker  Hermes  C.  Grillo  '43.  In  the 
second  row  are  Chelsey  Carrier  Remington 
'61,  winner  of  the  Ittleson  Award,  given  by 
the  Brown  Annual  Fund;  and  Mary  Louise 
Hinckley  Record  '37,  winner  (with  Thomas 
Brown  '50,  who  was  absent)  of  the  John 
Hope  Award  for  public  service. 


Pioneering  thoracic  surgeon  Hermes  Grillo 
'43  (center),  winner  of  the  William  Rogers 
Award,  and  his  wife,  Sue  Robinson,  talk 
with  President  Gee  before  the  luncheon  in 
Alumnae  Hall. 

Those  in  the  top  three  rows  received 
Alumni  Service  Awards  for  their  dedication 
to  alumni  activities.  Third  row:  Randall 
Sherman  '75,  Richard  Mertens  '57,  Phebe 
Vandersip  '98  (RUE),  and  Henry  Vandersip 
'56.  Fourth  row:  Dorothy  Berger  Friar  '42, 
Rebecca  Bliss  '92,  and  David  Bloom  '71.  Top 
row:  Marc  Bergschneider  73  and  Paul  von 
Oeyen  '71,  '75  M.D.  (Julio  de  Queseda  '74 
was  absent.) 


At  the  awards  luncheon, 
Rogers  Award  winner  Hermes 
Grillo,  a  thoracic  surgeon  on  the 
Harvard  Medical  School  faculty 
who  is  known  as  the  "father  of 
tracheal  surgery,"  spoke  hopefully  of  new 
developments  in  medical  research  and  edu- 
cation. But  he  cautioned  that  diminished 
funding  could  threaten  both  areas.  Grillo 
directed  his  harshest  words,  however,  at 
trends  in  health-care  delivery.  "In  my  view," 
Grillo  told  the  capacity  crowd  in  Alumnae 
Hall,  "the  greatest  failure  of  American  medi- 
cine has  been  in  equitable  delivery  of  med- 
ical care."  He  called  health-care  coverage  "a 
crazy  quilt,"  and  noted  that  those  who  con- 
trol access  to  health  services  are  no  longer 
practitioners  but  "money  managers." 

The  latest  managed-care  strategy,  "capi- 
tation," in  which  insurers  set  maximum 


reimbursement  levels  for  treatments,  drew 
an  especially  pointed  blast  from  Grillo.  "The 
engine  of  capitation  seeks  to  place  financial 
responsibility  for  medical  care  on  doctors," 
he  said,  "presenting  them  with  a  theme  for 
a  morality  play:  the  less  care  you  give  the 
sick,  the  more  you  may  earn!  Meanwhile, 
CEOs  and  other  health-care  managers  take 
ever-rising  and,  to  me,  unconscionable 
salaries." 

In  the  end,  Grillo  reminded  his  audi- 
ence, medicine  must  always  be  about  the 
needs  of  individual  patients. 

The  William  Rogers  Award,  named  for 
Brown's  first  graduate,  annually  honors  an 
alumnus  whose  service  to  society  exempli- 
fies "a  life  of  usefulness  and  reputation"  - 
words  taken  from  the  Brown  charter.  It  is 
the  Brown  Alumni  Association's  highest 
honor.  -  Anne  Diffily 


(>  2    'JANUARY     FEBRUARY      1 998 


and  elsewhere.  I  tried  to  put  a  little  humor 
into  a  subject  that  can  be  somewhat  dry."  Dale 
can  be  reached  at  dburg@rw.dmeinc.com. 


1963  ss 


th  Reunion 


Save  the  dates  May  22-25  and  watch  for  news 
of  our  35th  reunion.  We  are  planning  a  terrific 
weekend,  including  festive  events  and  plenty 
of  time  to  become  reacquainted  with  old 
friends.  We  look  forward  to  seeing  you.  If  you 
haven't  received  your  tall  mailing,  call  reunion 
headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

Suzanne  Walter  Bassani  moved  into  a 
new  home  in  May  and  continues  to  work  for 
Pathlore  Software,  a  computer-based  training 
(CBT)  product  and  services  company  in 
Columbus,  Ohio.  In  the  last  year,  she  has  trav- 
eled extensively,  consulting  about  multimedia 
design  and  training  clients  to  use  the  com- 
pany's new  Internet  CBT  product.  She  can  be 
reached  at  5807  Westchester  Ct.,Worthington, 
Ohio  43085;  sbassani@pathJore.com. 

Elaine  Piller  Congress,  New  York  City, 
has  published  Multicultural  Perspectives  iu  Work- 
ing with  Families  (Springer).  She  is  director  of  the 
doctoral  program  and  was  recently  named  act- 
ing associate  dean  at  Fordham  University's  Grad- 
uate School  of  Social  Service.  Last  June.  Elaine 
was  elected  president  of  the  National  Associa- 
tion of  Social  Workers,  New  York  City  chapter. 

Barbara  Chernell  Faigin  (see  Randy 
Faigin  '90). 

Robert  P.  Freeman  writes:  "Joyce  and 
I  have  sold  our  hotel  on  the  Oregon  coast  and 
are  heading  into  retirement  -  staying  in  the 
same  area,  but  doing  a  lot  of  traveling."  Robert 
can  be  reached  at  OreHouse@aol.com. 

Gail  Caslowitz  Levine  (see  Jane  Levine 
'88). 


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Raymond  Azrak  (see  Naomi  Suzuki  '91). 

Bruce  W.  Bean  writes:  "I  am  enjoying 
my  role  as  managing  partner  of  the  Coudert 
Brothers'  Moscow  office.  The  pace  of  change 
and  the  tangible  progress  made  in  Moscow 
toward  the  completion  of  Russia's  most  incred- 
ible revolution  is  amazing  to  watch  and  grati- 
fying to  be  a  part  of.  We  are  starting  our  third 
school  year  in  Moscow,  and  I  am  informed  by 
my  children  that  they  intend  to  graduate  from 
the  Anglo-American  School  in  Moscow  in 
the  years  2000  and  2002  respectively."  Bruce 
can  be  reached  c/o  Coudert  Brothers,  11 14 
Avenue  of  the  Americas,  New  York  City  10036; 
beanmoscow@aol.com. 

Gerald  Eggert  (see  Arnold  Eggert  '41). 

Robert  J.  Follows  received  an  MBA. 
from  Wharton  and  an  M.Sc.  in  computer  sci- 
ence. He  can  be  reached  at  430  High  Rock 
St.,  Needham,  Mass.  02192. 

Mara  Gailitis  Koppel  can  be  reached 
at  5635  S.  Dorchester  Ave.,  Chicago  60637; 
mkoppel@acs-popmail.uchicago.edu. 

Bill  Levine  (see  Jane  Levine  '88). 


Charlotte  Cook  Morse,  with  two  British 
co-editors,  presented  professor  J.  A.  Burrow, 
Bristol  University,  with  a  Festschrift,  Essays  on 
Ricardian  Literature  (Oxford  University  Press), 
which  includes  her  essay  "From  Ricardian 
Poetry  to  Ricardian  Studies."  Charlotte  writes, 
"The  celebration  made  a  fine  ending  for 
the  Medieval  Futures  conference."  She  can  be 
reached  at  2202  Floyd  Ave.,  Richmond,  Va. 
23220. 

Eldon  D.  Wedlock  Jr.,  the  David  H. 
Means  Professor  of  Law  at  the  University  of 
South  Carolina  Law  School,  has  been  elected 
chair  of  the  university  faculty  for  1997-99.  He 
co-authored  TlicTree  of  Liberty:  A  Documentary 
History  of  Political  Crime  and  Rebellion  iu  the 
United  States  (Johns  Hopkins  University  Press). 
Eldon  reports  that  his  wife,  Janet  L.  Nielsen 
Wedlock  '65,  and  their  two  children  Stina 
'89,  '93  M.D.  and  Sara  are  doing  well.  Eldon 
can  be  reached  at  wedlock@sc.edu. 


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Leslie  A.  Blatt,  Maplewood,  N.J.,  is  a  senior 
producer  forABCNEWS.com  and  responsible 
for  the  ABC  News  site  on  America  Online. 
Leslie,  who  has  worked  for  ABC  for  thirty  years, 
can  be  reached  at  abcles@aol.com  or  blattl@ 
abcnews.com. 

Pamela  Farro  Crown  was  looking  for- 
ward to  retiring  from  the  Council  for  Children, 
Charlotte,  N.C.,  in  December.  She  anticipates 
becoming  a  master  gardener  and  traveling  to 
see  friends  and  family.  Pam  can  be  reached  at 
1901  Sterling  Rd.,  Charlotte  28209. 

Christopher  Donoho  and  Joan  Hayes 
Donoho  (see  Geoffrey  Donoho  '94). 

Richard  W.  Holt  is  a  professor  of  surgery 
and  assistant  dean  at  the  Georgetown  Univer- 
sity School  of  Medicine  in  Washington,  DC. 

Doug  Smith,  Colleyville.Tex.,  writes: 
"One  year  ago  I  was  named  national  director  of 
programs  for  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America.  |udv. 
Dan,  and  I  moved  to  the  Dallas  area  from  Ore- 
gon. After  thirty-one  years  with  the  Boy  Scouts, 
I  am  now  in  charge  of  everything  that's  fun!" 

Terry  and  Pat  Walker  Walsh  (see  Susan 
Smith  and  Ryan  Walsh,  both  '93). 


1966 


James  P.  Galkin  is  president  and  CEO  of 
Crown  Cut  Packaging  Inc.,  a  Pawtucket,  R.I.. 
manufacturing  corporation.  His  son  Todd  is  in 
his  third  year  at  Case  Western  Reserve  Dental 
School,  while  another  son,  Lee,  graduated 
from  Suffolk  Law  School  and  is  living  in  Man- 
hattan with  his  fiancee,  Erika.  Lee  will  be 
married  in  October.  James  can  be  reached  at 
73  Whitewood  Dr.,  Cranston,  R.I.  02920. 


I967 


Inc.,  4355  Davidson  Rd..  Hilliard,  Ohio  43026, 
(617)  529-0843  or  (614)  876-3403;  Carolyn 
Laughlin  VanDam,  secretarv;John  Barrett. 
treasurer;  Marjorie  Marks,  annual  giving 
coordinator;  and  Eugene  Newman,  activities 
coordinator. 


I968£S 


th  Reunion 


Save  the  dates  for  our  30th  reunion.  May  22-25. 
Come  back  and  share  the  weekend  with  old 
friends  and  new.  Contact  reunion  headquar- 
ters at  (401)  863-1947  if  you  did  not  receive 
the  fall  mailing.  -  Margaret  French  Gardner  and 
Dick  Trull 

Joel  Bennett  was  named  chair  of  the  law- 
practice  management  section  of  the  American 
Bar  Association  at  its  annual  meeting  in  San 
Francisco  in  August.  Joel,  a  past  president  of 
the  Bar  Association  of  the  District  of  Columbia, 
practices  employment  law  in  Washington,  DC. 

Caryl  E.  Carpenter,  Lansdowne,  Pa.,  is 
spending  her  sabbatical  fromWidener  Univer- 
sity working  with  the  Southern  Health  Care 
Network  in  Melbourne,  Australia. 

Robert  Ladd  has  been  promoted  to  pro- 
fessor after  twelve  years  at  Edinburgh  Univer- 
sity. He  can  be  reached  at  bob@ling.ed.ac.uk. 

Fredi  L.  Pearlmutter.  an  attorney  with 
Cooper,  Rose  &  English,  has  been  appointed 
chair  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Bar  Association's 
environmental  law  section.  Fredi  is  a  trustee 
of  the  Harvard  Law  School  Association  and 
an  adjunct  professor  at  Seton  Hall,  where  she 
teaches  environmental  law.  She  and  her  hus- 
band, Paul  D.  Cohen,  are  celebrating  their 
tenth  anniversary. 


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Paul  Payton  and  his  wife.Bette  Schultz  '73, 

are  alive  and  well  in  Chatham,  N.J.  -  except 
for  a  damaged  leg  each.  Bette  tore  a  knee  liga- 
ment in  the  spring,  and  Paul  broke  an  ankle  in 
September.  Bette  is  senior  director  of  business 
development  at  Schering  Plough  for  the  U.S. 
as  well  as  foreign  markets.  Paul's  voice-over 
work  continues  to  expand,  and  he  has  done 
national  spots  for  Pillsbury,  Life  magazine,  and 
Bell  Atlantic.  Paul  and  Bette  can  be  reached  at 
67  Candace  Ln.,  Chatham  07928. 

Joan  M.  Ruffle  continues  to  work  at  the 
Hershey  Medical  Center  in  Hershey,  Pa.  She 
was  recently  promoted  to  associate  professor 
of  clinical  anesthesia  at  Penn  State.  Joan  can  be 
reached  at  1132  Draymore  Ct.,  Hummelstown, 
Pa.  17036. 


I97O 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  are  David 
Chichester,  president,  c/o  Red  Roof  Inns 


Paul  G.  Farrell.  Falmouth.  Mass..  has  been 
named  a  trustee  of  the  Massachusetts  Bar 
Foundation.  Paul  is  a  partner  111  the  firm  of 
Paul  G.  Farrell  and  Associates. 

John  Hammett  is  president  of  the  Safety 
Speed  Cut  in  Anoka,  Minn.  He  lives  in  Chan- 


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hassen,  Minn.,  with  his  wife.Carri  (San  Fran- 
cisco  State  University  '75),  and  their  three 
children. 

Peter  McMenamin  became  director  of 
health  policy  development  for  the  American 
Medical  Association  in  September.  His  primary 
office  is  m  the  AMA's  Washington.  D.C.,  build- 
ing. He  can  be  reached  at  pdrnzq@erols.com. 

Glenn  S.  Orton  received  NASA's  Out- 
standing Scientific  Achievement  Medal  for  his 
work  describing  the  conditions  on  Jupiter, 
where  the  Galileo  probe  entered  the  atmos- 
phere. He  remains  busy  with  the  orbited  por- 
tion of  the  mission,  now  extended  through 
the  end  of  1909.  Glenn  can  be  reached  at  949 
Monte  Verde  Dr.,  Arcadia,  Calif.  91007. 


1971 


Kenneth  S.  Cohen  was  appointed  to  a  three- 
year  term  on  a  federal  commission  that  advises 
the  Secretary  of  Labor  and  Congress  on  retire- 
ment and  health-care  issues. The  fifteen  mem- 
ber Advisory  Council  on  Employee  Welltare 
and  Pension  Benefit  Plans  is  currently  holding 
hearings  on  the  use  of  soft-dollar  compensation 
by  pension  investment  managers,  investments 
111  employer  securities  by  401  (k)  plans,  and  the 
decline  ot  defined-  benefit  pension  plans.  Ken 
chairs  the  working  group  on  defined-benefit 
plans. The  advisory  council  expected  to  make 
its  recommendations  to  Secretary  of  Labor 
Alexis  Herman  and  Congress  by  the  end  ot 
1997.  Ken  is  a  senior  vice  president  at  Mass- 
Mutual,  and  his  daughter,  Dara  '01 ,  is  a  fresh- 
man at  Brown.  He  can  be  reached  at  59 
Woodlot  Rd.,  Amherst,  Mass.  01002;  kcohen 
•  a  111  issnmtual.com. 

Elie  Hirschfeld,  New  York  City,  and  his 
w  ife,  Susan,  announce  the  birth  of  Benjamin 
on  Aug.  14. "Everyone  is  happy  and  healthy," 
Elie  \\  rites. 


1972 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  are  George 
Billings,  president.  1101  King  St.,  #  601. 
Alexandria, Va.  22314,(703)  5 18-51  So;  Charles 
Gross,  set  rct.u  v;  Joan  Wernig  Sorensen, 
treasurer;  Joseph  Mittleman,  annual  giving 

I  hair;  Don  Stanford,  events  coordinator; 
Oliver  Cromwell,  vice  president,  east  region; 
Terry  Plochman,  vice  president,  midwest 
region;  and  Mark  Blumenkranz,  vice  presi- 
dent, west  region. 

Harriet  Hanzel  Cole  writes:  "Our 
daughter  Lisa  '99  is  spending  the  fall  semester 
studying  at  the  Hebrew  University  in  Jerusalem. 
(  >ur  daughter  Be(  k\  is  a  first-year  student  at 
li  11 11  in].  We  are  trying  to  adjust  to  our  empty 
nest,  bin  it's  aw  fully  quiet!  Alan  '73,  '76  M.D. 
is  looking  forward  to  his  25th  reunion."  Har- 

I I  1  and  Alan  can  be  reached  at  35  Eliot  Hill 
Rd..  Natick,  Mass.  01760. 

Victor  De  Gruttola  was  named  a  fellow 
ol  the  American  Statistic  il  Association  111 
August.  I  le  is  .1  professor  of  biostatistics  at 


VICTORIA     ROBIN     '67 

Penny  Wise 

Save  money,  be  happy 

It  sounds  simple  enough,  but  Victoria  Robin's 
message  -  to  spend  less  and  save  more  to 
enjoy  the  things  you  hold  dear  -  can  be  a 
tough  sell.  Knowing  that  many  people  find  it 
difficult  to  scale  back  their  lifestyles,  Robin 
and  her  co-author,  the  late  Joe  Dominguez, 
published  Your  Money  or  Your  Life,  a  "guide 
to  voluntary  simplicity,"  in  1992.  Their  nine- 
step  program  for  getting  out  of  debt,  achiev- 
ing financial  independence  through  frugality, 
and  stashing  away  money  in  government- 
insured  bonds  has  since  sold  more  than 
600,000  copies. 

"It's  about  common  sense,  not  depriva- 
tion," Robin  says.  "We  are  teaching  people 
to  become  more  aware  of  their  spending 
habits  and  values."  Robin  practices  what  she 
preaches.  She  shares  a  home  with  several 
people,  drives  a  1984  Toyota  Tercel,  and  lives 
off  the  interest  from  her  bonds.  "People  are 
beginning  to  realize  life  can  be  too  complex," 
she  contends.  "They  have  too  much,  they  do 
too  much,  and  they  know  too  many  people." 

Your  Money  or  Your  Life,  which  has  been 
translated  into  several  foreign  languages, 
asks  readers  to  make  an  honest  comparison 


KIA    HOBIN 


between  what 
they've  earned 
and  what  their 
money  has 

purchased  for  them,  both  physically  and  spir- 
itually. The  book  dispenses  practical  how-to 
advice  on  living  below  your  means,  getting 
out  of  debt,  and  maintaining  a  detailed 
budget  of  your  expenses  while  keeping  the 
most  important  question  clearly  in  focus: 
Is  your  level  of  satisfaction  proportional  to 
your  investments  of  time  and  money? 

"It's  about  gaining  control  of  your  life 
and  finding  out  what  is  most  important  to 
you,"  Robin  says.  "Many  people  are  discov- 
ering that  they've  been  buying  material 
things  to  fill  immaterial  needs." 

The  book's  success  has  presented  Robin 
with  another  opportunity  to  put  her  money 
where  her  mouth  is.  She  has  established  the 
New  Road  Map  Foundation,  staffed  by  vol- 
unteers who  have  achieved  financial  inde- 
pendence through  Your  Money  or  Your  Life. 
The  foundation  awards  grants  of  $500  to 
$2,000  to  organizations  that  promote  sus- 
tainability  and  frugality.  "We  already  had 
enough,"  Robin  says.  "We  want  to  give  back 
to  organizations  that  are  helping  scale  back 
consumption."  -  Richard  P.  Morin 


the  Harvard  School  of  Public  Health. 


1973© 


th  Reunion 


Save  the  dates  May  22-25.  This  is  it  -  our 
25th! This  is  the  once-in-a-lifetime  reunion. 
our  biggest  and  best,  but  only  if  you  are  there 
to  celebrate  with  us. You  should  have  received 
the  fall  reunion  mailing.  If  not.  please  contact 
reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947.  We 
look  forward  to  seeing  you  in  May. 

Janet  Adams  and  Barry  Johnson  gut 
together  with  Peter  Ma  (aTougaloo  College 
exchange  student  in  1974)  111  Portland,  Oreg., 
this  September.  I  hex  hail  not  seen  each  other 
in  more  than  twenty  years  and  had  a  lot  ot 
catching  up  to  do.  A  good  time  was  had  by 
all.  Peter  and  Janet  live  111  Silver  Spring,  Md.. 
while  Barry  lives  111  Portland. Janet  can  be 
reac  lied  at  13717  Mills  Ave.,  Silver  Spring  20904. 

Eric  Buermann  has  been  re-elected 
chairman  ol  the  board  ol  trustees  of  Ransom 


Everglades  School  in  Miami.  Eric,  an  attorney, 
is  also  involved  111  real  estate  and  banking.  He 
serves  111  Tallahassee  as  vice  chairman  and 
commissioner  for  the  Florida  Elections  Com- 
mission and  lives  111  Miami  with  his  wife  and 
two  daughters. 

Charles  C.  Goetsch  is  a  partner  111  the 
New  Haven  law  firm  of  Cahill  and  Goetsch, 
where  he  specializes  in  civil  trials  and  appeals 
in  the  federal  courts  of  Connecticut  and  New 
York.  Earlier  this  year  Charles  argued  a  case 
before  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  on 
behalf  of  the  "Snowmen  of  Grand  Central 
Terminal."  a  group  of  railroad  workers  who 
were  exposed  to  massive  amounts  ot  asbestos 
while  working  in  the  tunnels  beneath  Grand 
Central  Terminal.  Charles  and  his  wife,  Cecilia 
C.  Motfitt.  have  two  children:  Benjamin,  H>. 
ami  Megan.  10. They  can  be  reached  at  39 
Round  Hill  Rd.,Woodbridge,  Conn.  06525. 

Deborah  Mayhew  (see  John  W.  May- 
hew  '48). 

Mark  G.  Rovzar  lives  m  Warwick,  R.L, 


r>  4   •    1  \  \  1  a  r  >     11  11  R  1  ,\  in     19 1)  8 


with  his  wife, Judy,  and  sons  Alex,  is.  and  Max, 
13.  Mark  writes: "Life  for  the  past  ten  years  or 
so  has  centered  around  the  boys'  hockey  and 
golf.  And.  of  course,  our  jobs!  I  look  forward 
to  the  25th  reunion."  Mark  can  be  reached  at  74 
Balcom  Ave.,  Warwick  02889;  kramgr@aol.com. 


1974 


Ken  Field  spent  September  as  an  invited  resi- 
dent in  music  composition  at  the  Ucross  Foun- 
dation in  Wyoming.  He  is  working  on  a  CD 
of  saxophone  quartets,  which  will  follow  his 
first  solo  release,  Subterranea.  Ken  and  his  wife, 
Karen  Aqua  (RISD  '76).  will  be  in  residence 
at  Alfred  University  in  New  York  this  spring. 
Ken's  Web  site  is  http://www.saturn.net/~kfield. 
Joseph  T.  Grause  Jr.  cofounded  Cypress 
Holding  Co.  in  November  1995.  "CHC  is  a 
mutual  fund,  investment  management  company 
with  $1.5  billion  under  management,"  Joseph 
writes. "There  is  life  after  Fidelity!"  His  children 
are: Joseph,  16;  John,  13:  and  Alex,  11.  Joseph 
can  be  reached  at  29  Windsor  Rd.,  Needham. 
Mass.  02192. 


1975 


John  Copenhaver  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Clinton  to  direct  the  Federal  Emergency 
Management  Agency's  regional  oft  ice  in 
Atlanta.  John  is  responsible  for  administering  a 
variety  of  federal  emergency-preparedness. 
prevention,  and  disaster-recovery  programs  for 
eight  states.  Prior  to  joining  FEMA,  (ohn  was 
adviser  for  the  worldwide  crisis  response  team 
at  IBM  Business  Recovery  Services. John  and 
his  wife,  Lynn,  live  in  Marietta,  Ga. 

David  Given  is  a  general  partner  at  Key 
Equity  Capital,  which  invests  in  privately 
owned  manufacturing  businesses.  David  and 
his  wife.  Julie,  keep  busy  with  the  activities  of 
their  n -year-old  son,  Rory.  "We  are  in  peri- 
odic, but  not  frequent  enough,  contact  with 
classmates  John  Cangemi,  Pete  Chelovich. 
Jerry  Gilligan.Jim  Madich,  Bob  Mueller, 
GregVezzosi  '76,  and  Jim  Love  '7X.We  are 
committed  Cleveland  hockey  parents  with 
fellow  alums  Susan  Crooks  Neville  '71  and 
Jim  Malgieri  '74  and  his  wife,  Wendy  Ternes 
Malgieri  '74.  We  are  also  enjoying  friendship 
with  three  fellow  hockey  alumni  who  recently 
moved  to  Cleveland:  Michel  Bayard  '88, 
Kevin  Lovitt   Si,  and  Derek  Chauvette  '93. 
We're  looking  forward  to  the  25th  reunion  in 
the  new  millennium!''  David  can  be  reached 
at  19115  Shaker  Blvd..  Shaker  Heights.  Ohio 
44122. 

Timothy  D.  Miller  writes: "I  now  haw 
two  daughters:  Ehse.  X,  and  (  Turc.  4.  I  am  still 
practicing  small-animal  veterinary  medicine  at 
my  1  lime  in  Arlington. Tex.  My  family  and  I 
trawl  to  Maine  each  summer  and  would  love 
to  contact  John  Rosenberg,  Susie  Kaye,  or 
other  Brown  alumni  while  in  New  England." 
Timothy  can  be  reached  at  4N2N  Meadow- 
brook  Dr..  Fort  Worth. Tex.  76103. 


Joanne  Polayes-Wien  writes:  "Aileen 
Lum  Murphy,  Susan  Schlamb  Carroll. 
Valerie  Underwood,  and  I  got  together  for  a 
belated  20th  reunion  in  June  1996  in  Port- 
land. Oreg.  A  wonderful  time  was  had  by  all. 
I'm  still  enjoying  living  111  Seattle,  especially 
during  the  summer  when  I  try  to  cram  in  as 
much  hiking,  biking,  gardening,  and  other 
outdoor  activities  as  possible.  My  husband, 
Perry,  and  I  bought  mountain  bikes  this  year 
and  have  been  exploring  new  places  to  use 
them."  Joanne  still  works  at  the  Washington 
Department  of  Geology  111  the  toxics  cleanup 
program  and  can  be  reached  at  1600  Warren 
Ave.  N.,  Seattle  9X109:  jpol461@ecy.wa. gov. 

Michael  Schmit  is  deputy  executive 
director  of  the  Pennsylvania  Came  Commis- 
sion, a  state  wildlife  management  agency.  He 
can  be  reached  at  RD2.  Box  2065,  Fleetwood, 
Pa.  [9522. 


IN    THE    NEWS 

A  Powerful  Precedent:  At  a  swearing-in 
ceremony  in  Providence  on  November  13, 
0.  Rogeriee  Thompson  '73  became  the 
first  black  woman  justice  of  the  Rhode 
Island  Superior  Court.  Thompson,  a  former 
District  Court  judge,  told  the  crowd:  "I 
accept  [this]  place  in  history  with  pride  and 
with  honor,  but . . .  the  fact  that  I  am  the 
only  one  means  we  have  work  yet  to  do 
[in]  broadening  the  scope  of  the  bench." 


Richard  Smith  has  been  teaching  psychol- 
ogy at  the  University  ot  Kentucky  since  1990. 
He  and  his  wife,  Sung  Hee  Kim,  have  two 
daughters:  Rosanna,  9.  and  Caroline,  5.  Richard 
can  be  reached  at  2996  Runnymeade  Way, 
1  exmgton,  Ky.  40503:  rhsmitoo@pop.uky.edu. 

Neil  D.  Steinberg  lives  in  Pawtucket, 
R.I. .with  his  wife.  Genie  Shao  '77,  and  then- 
sons  Jason,  12,  and  Eric,  9.  Neil  is  an  executive 
vice  president  at  Fleet  Bank  and  continues  to 
run  competitively.  Neil  and  Genie  can  be 
reached  at  46  Roberta  Ave.,  Pawtucket  02X60. 

Mark  Weston's  play  The  L.i<l  Man  in 
Europe,  about  George  Orwell,  was  performed 
by  Broadway  actor  Michael  Allinson  at  the 
English  Speaking  Union  in  New  York  City  on 
Nov.  4.  Mark  is  finishing  the  last  chapter  of 
his  second  book.  Giants  oj  lapan:The  Stories  qj 
Japan's  Greatest  Men  and  Women.  He  can  be 
reached  at  P.O.  Box  892,Armonk,  N.Y.  10504. 

Scott  Wolf  is  111  his  third  year  as  execu- 
tive director  of  The  "97  Project,  an  issue- 
education  and  grassroots  lobbying  organization. 
"(  )ur  principal  mission  is  to  move  public  opin- 
ion and  national  legislation  111  a  more  progres 
sive  direction,"  Scott  writes. "This  job  has 
made  my  wife, Joyce,  and  me  experts  about 
the  phenomenon  of  commuter  marriages, 
since  we  are  dividing  our  time  between  Wash- 


ington. D.C.,  and  Providence."  Scott  can  be 
reached  at  70  President  Ave..  Providence  02906; 
swolt@proj.org. 

Michael  Young  was  appointed  acting 
president  and  CEO  ofJAMS-Endispute,  the 
largest  provider  of  alternative  dispute  resolu- 
tion services  111  the  country.  Michael  is  also  a 
mediator  and  arbitrator  with  the  same  firm. 
He  lives  in  Brooklyn,  N.Y.  with  his  wife, 
Debra  Raskin,  also  an  attorney,  and  their  chil- 
dren Isaac,  16,  and  Dara,  12.  Michael  cm  be 
reached  at  295  St.  John  PI.,  #6A,  Brooklyn 
1 1238;  myoung@jams-endispute.com. 


I976 


Barbara  Dooley,  Reston.Va.,  is  executive 
director  of  the  world's  largest  international 
trade  association  for  Internet  service  providers. 
She  married  John  Lyons,  a  senior  correspon- 
dent with  the  ABC  Radio  Network,  and  the 
couple  is  trying  to  end  the  NewYork-to- 
Washmgton,  DC,  commute.  Barbara  would 
be  happy  to  hear  from  classmates  at  (703)  709- 
X200;  bdooley@cix.org. 

Wendy  Mason-Hummel  is  taking  a 
sabbatical  from  a  career  in  health-care  admin- 
istration to  raise  sons  Mark,  10,  and  Scott,  X, 
and  daughter  Mackenzie,  4.  "Becoming  mi 
expert  on  early  childhood  education,  multiple 
scheduling,  and  the  mmivan  is  a  must,"  writes 
Wendy. "A  recent  white-water  river  ratting 
trip  in  Chile  was  the  highlight  of  interna- 
tional travel.  I  would  love  to  catch  up  with 
old  friends,  so  come  visit  sunny  San  Diego." 
She  can  be  reached  at  1423s  Primrose  Ct., 
Poway,  Calif.  92064;  wendymh95@aol.com. 

Anna  Bobiak  Nagurney  'No  Sc.M.,  '83 
Ph.D.  has  co-authored  Financial  Networks:  Stat- 
ics and  Dynamics  (Springer- Veiiag). The  book 
presents  a  new  theory  ot  multi-sector,  multi- 
instrument  financial  systems  based  on  the 
visualization  of  systems  such  as  networks. 
Anna  is  3  professor  in  the  Department  of 
Finance  and  Operations  Management  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  at  Amherst. 

John  Henry  Pitts  Jr.  writes:  "I  have 
relocated  to  Boston  after  (too)  many  years  in 
Houston. The  business  opportunities  for  my 
company,  Pharr  Capital  I  )evelopment,  are  the 
reason  for  the  move.  I  really  enjoyed  seeing 
Kathy  Garrett  and  Lonnie  Berry  at  our 
reunion.  Arlene,  Cece,  and  Sharon,  where 
were  you?"  John  encourages  friends  to  get  111 
touch  with  him  at  505  Paradise  Rd.,#2Il, 
Swampscott,  Mass.  01907;  (7X1)  599-8274. 

Charlie  Walker  was  appointed  advisory 
director,  private  equity,  at  Hambrecht  &  Quist 
in  San  Francisco.  Formerly  Charlie  was  diret  - 
tor  of  Allstate  Insurance  Co.'s  project  finance 
unit  111  Northbrook.  111.  He  can  be  reached  at 
cwalker@hamquist.com. 


1977 


I  he  newly  elected  class  officers  are  Ann  Gal- 
ligan,  co-president,  15  Cole  Ave.,  Providence 


B  DOWN    A  I  U  M  N  I    M  A  G  A  Z I  N 1     •    6  5 


SKIP     GORMAN     '71 


Singin'  on  the  Range 

A  cowboy  crooner  with  academic  roots 


Skip  Gorman  figures  fellow  alumni  will  get  a 
kick  out  of  his  lifestyle.  Though  he  is  neither 
the  first  nor  the  most  famous  musician  to 
emerge  from  the  Van  Wickle  Gates,  Gorman 
is  an  original:  a  cowboy  singer  with  deep 
roots  in  academe. 

"I've  been  involved  in  traditional  folk 
music  my  whole  life,"  Gorman  explains.  At 
Brown  he  combined  his  knowledge  of  history 
and  folk  tradition  with  Spanish  and  anthro- 
pology for  an  independent  concentration  in 
Latin  American  studies.  Gorman,  who  plays 
the  fiddle,  mandolin,  and  guitar,  believes  that 
studying  music  is  "a  great  way  to  study  his- 
tory and  ethnicity.  It  forces  you  to  have  both 
your  eyes  and  ears  open." 

Following  graduation,  Gorman  spent  a 
summer  in  Ireland  researching  traditional  fid- 
dle styles  and  the  Celtic  roots  of  American  folk 
music.  "Playing  with  musicians  in  the  British 


Isles  gave  me  a  chance  to  see  where  American 
folk  music  was  really  coming  from.  I  was  in 
the  thick  of  the  folk  revival."  His  passion  for 
history  led  to  graduate  studies  in  Latin  Ameri- 
can history  at  the  University  of  Utah,  where 
his  interests  in  cowboy  music  and  the  Ameri- 
can West  flowered. 

After  teaching  history  and  Spanish  at  Suf- 
field  Academy  in  Connecticut  and  the  Tilton 
School  in  New  Hampshire,  Gorman  devoted 
himself  full-time  to  music  five  years  ago.  Under 
a  contract  with  Rounder  Records,  he  has 
released  two  albums  and  has  a  third,  Rough 
Riders'  Refrain,  in  the  works.  Critics  have 
gushed  about  Gorman's  "leather-real"  voice 
and  "lulling  and  lonely"  fiddle,  and  his  music 


has  been  featured  on  Prairie  Home  Compan- 
ion as  well  as  in  two  of  Ken  Burns's  television 
documentaries,  Baseball  and  Lewis  and  Clark. 

Not  only  does  Gorman  count  Burns  and 
Garrison  Keillor  among  his  fans,  he  has  also 
forged  friendships  with  Paul  Fees  '76  A.M. ,'82 
Ph.D.,  the  senior  curator  at  the  Buffalo  Bill 
Historical  Center  in  Cody,  Wyoming.  ("He  es- 
corts me  through  their  vaults,"  says  a  grateful 
Gorman.) 

Gorman  splits  his  time  between  a  41,000- 
acre  ranch  in  Wyoming,  where  he  is  involved 
in  re-creating  the  cattle  drives  of  the  1800s, 
and  a  200-year-old  farmhouse  in  New  Hamp- 
shire. "My  lifestyle  is  not  for  everyone,"  he 
says,  "but  it's  really  what  I've  always  wanted 
to  do." 

Although  Gorman  is  busy  performing 
around  the  world,  he  always  has  time  to  give 
an  impromptu  history  lesson.  "Did  you  know 
that  much  of  cowboy  lingo  is  derived  from 
Spanish?"  he  asks,  the  excitement  rising  in  his 
voice.  "Like  'buckaroo'  is  from  the  Spanish 
word  for  cowboy,  vaquero.  This  is  fascinating 
stuff!"  -  Torri  Still 


02906,(617)  373-3439:  Mark  Druy.  co-presi- 
dent, 38  Bonad  Rd.,  Arlington,  Mass.  02174, 
(617)  641-1957  or  (781)  890-0018,  mardruy(g! 
tiac.net;  Nancy  Lewis  Nichols  and  Allyson 
Davis  Hicks,  co-secretaries;  John  L.  Sherry 
and  Janie  Weinberg,  co-treasurers;  Josh 
Fidler  and  Genine  Macks  Fidler.  annual 
giving  coordinators;  Debbie  Chick.  Gerry 
Massa.  and  John  Bouda,  events  coordinators; 
Cheryl  Lopes  and  Cindy  Flowers,  program 
chairs;  and  Mark  Hauser.Web  master. 

Rodney  L.  Lofton  has  been  appointed 
leader  of  the  advanced  international  space  sta- 
tion engineering  and  technology  development 
office  at  NASA's  Johnson  Space  Center.  He  is 
responsible  for  the  development  and  execu- 
tion of  station  risk-mitigation  experiments 
performed  on  the  Russian  Mir  space  station 
Rodney  can  be  reached  at  3914  Quiet  Knoll 
tit.,  I  louston  77059. 

Matthew  R.  Mock.  Berkeley,  Calif.,  is 

in 1  of  family, youth, and  children's  services 

and  systemwide  multicultural-services  coordi- 
natoi  tin  the  city  of  Berkeley's  Mental  Health 
I  (ivision.  I  lis  program  received  a  Family  Ther- 
apy Network.  Innovations  in  Training  award 
this  year 

Randall  J.  Sunshine  works  for  the  law 


firm  of  Liner. Yankelevitz,  Sunshine,  Wemhart, 
Riley  &  Regenstreif  in  Santa  Monica,  Calif. 


I978fij 


th  Reunion 


Make  your  plans  now  to  return  to  campus  for 
our  20th  reunion  on  the  weekend  of  May 
22-25.  Save  the  dates  for  gala  times,  renewed 
friendships,  and  joyful  reminiscing.  Please 
contact  reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863- 
1947  it  you  did  not  receive  a  tall  mailing. 

Vivian  Comer  and  her  sons,  Owen.  9, 
and  Ellis,  6,  have  moved  to  England,  where 
Vivian  is  class  one  teacher  at  the  Michael  House 
Rudolf  Sterner  School.  (She  will  move  up 
with  the  class  until  they  graduate  from  eighth 
grade  in  2005.)  Owen  is  in  third  grade,  and 
Ellis  is  in  kindergarten.  In  1993, Vivian  left  the 
FD1C  legal  division,  where  she  had  headed 
the  bankruptcy  section  since  1985.  She  would 
love  to  hear  from  friends  living  or  traveling  111 
England.  She  can  be  reached  at  21  Lee  Ln.. 
I  angley,  Heanor,  Derbyshire  DE75  7HN. 
U.K.;  (01773)  7I4X°7- 

Abby  J.  Cohen  and  her  husband.  Jeff 
Sandler  (University  ofTexas),"are  thrilled  to 
announce  the  long-awaited  arrival  ot  Jesse 


Sage,  on  Sept.  26."  He  joins  his  big  sister, 
Maya,  who  is  in  first  grade.  Abby  left  the  Child 
Care  Law  Center  of  San  Francisco  in  May, 
after  working  on  a  range  of  child-care  legal 
issues  tor  more  than  fourteen  years  as  manag- 
ing attorney  (seven  of  which  she  also  spent  as 
executive  director). "I'm  now  working  on  my 
own  as  a  child  care  law  and  policy  consultant." 
Abby  writes,  "and  I  recently  completed  a  pro- 
ject focused  on  improving  the  quality  of  child 
care  offered  under  welfare  reform."  Jeff,  who 
maintains  a  private  psychiatry  practice  in  San 
Francisco,  finished  his  analytic  training  last 
year.  "We  are  looking  forward  to  attending 
the  reunion  and  hope  our  friends  will  try  to 
come.  I  keep  reading  about  all  of  Providence's 
changes  and  am  eager  to  see  for  myself." Abby 
can  be  reached  at  abbyccm@aol.com. 

Jeffrey  G.  Freudberg  and  Suzanne 
Oesterreicher  announce  the  birth  of  Jeremy 
and  Rose  Freudberg  on  Jan.  10,1997. They 
can  be  reached  at  102  Clark  St..  Newton 
Center,  Mass.  02159. 

David  Hahn.a  composer,  completed 
Zoological  Bagatelles,  a  work  for  mandolin  and 
guitar.  It  premiered  111  Nashville  111  November 
at  the  National  Convention  of  Classical  Man- 
dohmsts  and  is  scheduled  to  be  published  by 


66    ♦  JANUARY     FEBRUARY      I  99 8 


Plucked  String  Editions.  David  can  be  reached 
at  10027  31st  Ave.,  NE,  Seattle  98125. 

Robert  E.  Feldman  has  been  appointed 
executive  secretary  ot  the  FDIC.  Robert,  a 
seventeen-year  FDIC  veteran,  had  been  deputy 
executive  secretary  since  May  198S.  He  lives 
in  Annandale.Va.,  with  his  wife,  Peggy  Jo,  and 
their  two  daughters.  Amy  and  Laurie. 

Don  Share  has  been  named  contributing 
editor  ot  Partisan  Review.  His  translation  ot  the 
selected  poems  of  Miguel  Hernandez,  1  Have 
Lots  of  Heart  (Bloodaxe  Books),  was  published 
111  June.  In  the  upcoming  year,  he  will  have 
two  more  books  published:  Seneca  in  English 
and  Lorca  in  English,  both  from  Penguin.  He 
would  love  to  hear  fromYash.  Don  can  be 
reached  at  sharedon@juno.com. 


IN   THE   NEWS 

A  Picture's  Worth:  Still  I  Rise:  A  Cartoon 
History  of  African  Americans,  by  Roland 
Owen  Laird  Jr.  '82  and  his  wife,  Taneshia 
Nash  Laird,  was  featured  as  a  "Book  of 
the  Month"  on  W.W.  Norton's  Web  site, 
www.wwnorton.com.  The  Lairds  "pull  no 
punches  as  they  confront  the  betrayals  and 
murderous  deprivations  faced  by  black 
people  in  both  the  North  and  South,"  Nor- 
ton's reviewer  said.  The  couple  has  started 
their  own  business,  Posro  Media,  in  Edison, 
New  Jersey. 


1979 


Neil  and  Beth  Evans  Mufson  announce  the 
arrival  of  Charles  Jae  Jung  Mufson  from  Seoul, 
South  Korea,  on  Aug.  7.  Charlie  was  born  on 
March  8,  1997.  He  joins  big  sister  Amelia,  2 'A. 
The  family  lives  in  Easton,  Md.,  where  Neil  is 
headmaster  of  the  Country  School. 


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Eric  R.  Albert  is  still  constructing  crossword 
puzzles  for  a  living.  He  can  be  reached  at  14 
Hancock  St.,  Auburndale,  Mass.  02166. 

Andrea  Estepa  co-edited  Starting  with  I 
(Persea  Books). The  book,  which  includes  a 
foreword  by  Edwidge  Danticat  '93  M.F.A.. 
is  a  collection  of  teenagers' personal  essays  about 
such  issues  as  violence,  racism,  and  parenting. 


I981 


John  E.  Bauinan  and  his  wife,  Jill,  announce 
the  birth  of  their  first  child,  Isabelle  Anthony. 
"Her  middle  name  is  the  family  name  of  my 
mother.  Adele  Anthony  '49.  It  also  belonged 
to  my  grandfather.  Elijah  Anthony  '18," John 


writes.  "I  continue  to  work  as  a  literary  agent 
111  the  entertainment  industry  at  the  Gersh 
Agency  in  Beverly  Hills,  and  in  that  capacity 
am  in  touch  with  many  illustrious  Brown 
grads.  1  am  always  open  to  meeting  fellow 
alums  who  are  looking  to  break  in."  John  can 
be  reached  at  9367  Airdrome  St.,  Los  Angeles 
90035. 

Scott  R.  Dumont  joined  General 
Investment  &:  Development  Co.  (GID)  in 
Boston  as  senior  vice  president  for  residential 
operations.  He  has  operating  responsibility  for 
GID's  forfy-hve  residential  properties  in  six- 
teen states.  Previously,  Scott  was  president  of 
Chatham  Management,  a  Boston-based  real 
estate  management  company. 

Anita  E.  Flax  and  Charles  A.  Moore  III 
announce  the  birth  of  their  fourth  child  and 
second  daughter,  Rachel  Hope  Moore,  on 
Nov.  4,  1996. Their  other  children  are  Sara,  5, 
Spencer,  4,  and  Carson,  2.  Anita  can  be  reached 
at  40  Glen  Ave.,  Cranston,  R.I.  02905. 

Victoria  Kaprielian  is  still  living  happily 
in  Durham,  N.C.  She  is  director  of  predoctoral 
education  and  faculty  development  for  the 
Department  of  Community  and  Family  Med- 
icine at  Duke  Medical  Center. Victoria  writes: 
"In  my  all-too-limited  spare  time  I  take  care 
of  my  two  feline  'children'  and  my  wonderful 
house  in  the  woods.  Plenty  of  room  for  old 
friends  visiting  the  Triangle."  She  can  be  reached 
at  7106  Calais  Dr.,  Durham  27712. 

Tom  Kong  and  Gloria  Lau  were  married 
on  Oct.5  in  San  Francisco.  Peter  Anderson, 
who  sent  this  note,  was  best  man.  Eli  Avila 
'86  M.D.,  George  Kong,  Rolf  von  Widen- 
felt  '83,  and  Amy  Costa  Migdal  '87  scaled 
the  hilly  San  Francisco  terrain  to  the  church 
and,  following  the  pronouncement  of  "hus- 
band and  wife,"  were  treated  to  a  traditional 
eight-course  Chinese  banquet.  Congratula- 
tions and  words  of  wisdom  can  be  sent  to 
Tom  and  Gloria  at  tkong@c-cube.com. 

Kevin  Lovitt  (see  David  Given  '75). 

Marty  Nemzow  has  written  several  new 
books,  including  ISDN  Sourcebook,  and  two 
Internet  thrillers:  Building  Cyherstore  and  Web 
I  "idea  Complete.  He  lives  in  Miami  Beach  and 
can  be  reached  at  man@smokebusters.com. 

Pamela  C.  Scott  married  Phil  Balshi,  an 
Andover  classmate.  Pam  is  a  partner  in  the 
human-resources  consulting  division  of  Coop- 
ers &  Lybrand,  and  her  husband  is  a  creative 
consultant  to  Young  &  Rubicam,  the  New 
York-based  advertising  agency.  They  live  in 
New  York  City  and  can  be  reached  at 
pscott3582@aol.com. 

Irene  Sinrich  Sudac  and  Mark  Sudac 
(Boston  University  '84)  announce  the  birth  of 
Helene  Renee  on  July  20.  Helene  joins  older 
brother  Marcus,  who  turned  3  in  December. 
Irene  writes:  "I  am  back  to  work  full-time 
and  continue  my  involvement  with  Brown  as 
treasurer  of  the  BAA."  She  can  be  reached  at 
297  Stamford  Ave.,  Stamford,  Conn.  06902; 
1rene.sudac@us.pna.ph1lips.com. 

David  E.Torrence  writes: "I'm  happily 
divorced  and  teaching  social  studies  in  East 
Cleveland  (Ohio)  city  schools.  I'm  also  coach- 


ing women's  basketball,  which  is  surprisingly 
fun.  I  would  love  to  hear  from  any  of  the  old 
gang  from  the  classses  of  1978  through  19S4. 
or  any  of  my  former  'slaves'  from  the  'College 
Hell'  Travel  days."  David  can  be  reached  at 
2622  E.  130th  St.,  Cleveland  44120:  detorrence 
(rt'aol.com. 


1982 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  include  Eric 
Moscahlaidis,  president,  4700  Northern  Blvd., 
Long  Island  City,  N.Y  moi;  (718)  729-9000. 

Roger  Baumgarten  and  Barrett  Sheri- 
dan announce  the  birth  of  Thomas  Wright 
Baumgarten  on  Sept.  11.  Alex,  2/4,  is  thrilled 
to  be  the  big  brother  in  the  house.  Barrett 
took  a  leave  from  her  job  as  assistant  consumer 
advocate  in  the  Pennsylvania  Attorney  Gen- 
eral's Office,  but  she  had  planned  to  return  by 
the  end  ot  1997.  Roger  continues  as  press  sec- 
retary for  the  Pennsylvania  Department  of 
Corrections. They  can  be  reached  at  3812 
Chippenham  Rd.,  Mechanicsburg,  Pa.  17055; 
rogerbaum@aol.com. 

Sharlene  W.  Graham  Lassiter  writes: 
"This  year  has  been  very  good  to  me  and  my 
children  Lindsey,  4,  and  Ellery,  2.  I  was  pro- 
moted to  lull  professor  of  law  and  awarded 
tenure  at  Salmon  P.  Chase  College  of  Law, 
Northern  Kentucky  University.  Everything 
looks  better  when  you  have  the  job  security 
tenure  provides."  Sharlene  can  be  reached  at 
lassiters@nku.edu. 


IN    THE    NEWS 

Inn-Roads:  The  Wall  Street  Journal  profiled 
Barry  S.  Sternlicht  '82  and  his  "rise  from 
business  school  to  hotel  mogul  in  just  a 
decade."  In  September,  Sternlicht's  Star- 
wood Lodging  Trust  acquired  Westin  Hotels 
and  Resorts,  cementing  his  position  as 
"one  of  the  nation's  most  prolific  hotel  buy- 
ers." By  November  he  was  making  head- 
lines with  a  blockbuster  $13.7  billion  friendly 
takeover  of  the  ITT  Corporation,  whose 
Sheraton  Hotels  and  Caesar's  World  casinos 
were  also  sought  by  Hilton  Hotels. 


James  K.  Sams  was  elected  partner  at 
KPMCi  Peat  Marwick.  James,  who  joined  the 
firm  111  1993,  works  m  the  Washington  national 
tax  practice,  international  services  area,  at 
KPMG's  Washington,  DC,  office.  He  lives  111 
Chevy  Chase,  Md.,  with  his  wife,  Lisa,  and 
their  children,  Claire  Najla  and  James  Khalil. 

Sharon  Cornu  Toney  and  her  husband. 
Mark,  moved  to  Oakland,  Calif.,  111  1995  with 
Isaiah,  7,  and  Benjamin,  5.  Mark  is  organizing 
while  working  on  a  Ph.D.  at  Berkeley.  Sharon 


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does  political  organizing  with  labor  unions. 
"We'd  love  to  hear  from  friends  -  especially 
those  who  aren't  'the  BAM  type'-  in  the  Bay 
Area.''  Sharon  writes.  She  can  be  reached  at  3514 
California  St..  I  Xikland  94619;  cornu@pacbell.net. 

John  M.  Townes  married  Helen  Kirschner 
(Mount  Holyoke  '89)  in  Portland,  Oreg.,  last 
May.  After  a  three-week  honeymoon  to  Italy, 
they  relocated  to  Nashville. Tenn.,  where  they 
are  both  working  torVanderbilt  University. 
John  is  completing  a  one-year  clinical  fellowship 
in  infectious  diseases  and  reports  that,  in  their 
little  spare  time,  he  and  his  wite  spend  time 
hiking  and  camping  with  Phmeas  (a  labrador) 
and  Poppy  (a  whippet). 

K.j.a.  Wishnia  published  2}  Slnides  of 
Black  (Imaginary  Press).  He  teaches  writing  at 
Queens  College  and  SUNY-Stony  Brook. 


1983  IS 


th  Reunion 


Save  the  dates  May  22-25!  Our  15th  reunion 
is  fast  approaching,  and  your  committee  has 
put  some  great  plans  in  place.  Come  back  and 
share  the  weekend  with  old  and  new  friends. 
Come  see  the  Providence  you  have  been 
reading  about  in  the  NewYork  Times. Watch 
your  mail  for  reunion  news.  If  you  did  not 


FOREIGN  RENTAL 

PARIS,  16th  Arr.  Large  1 -bedroom  apartment. 
Totally  furnished.  $2,300  per  month.  (617) 
235-5132. 

PERSONALS 

DATE  SOMEONE  IN  YOUR  OWN  LEAGUE. 

Graduates  and  faculty  of  the  Ivies  and  Seven  Sisters 
meet  alumni  and  academics. THE  RIGHT  STUFF. 
(800)988-52**. 

IF  YOU  ARE  A  PROFESSIONAL,  SECURE 
MAN,  between  the  ages  of  47-60  who  loves  life 
and  can  laugh  at  yourself,  I  would  like  to  meet  you. 
I  am  upper  40's  with  a  Ph.D.,  slender,  shapely,  and 
sultry,  with  a  big  heart  and  zest  for  life.  Reply  to 
BAM  Personals.  Providence,  R.I.  02912. 

PROPERTY  FOR  SALE 


NAPLES.  FLORIDA.  Waterfront,  golf  properties 
from  $150,000.  FREE  custom  report.  Alex  BugaerT. 
(800)  562-0233.  Prudential  Florida  Realty.  Indepen- 
dently owned. 

VACATION  RENTALS 


(  UI  I  BRA  ISLAND.  Halfway  between  Puerto 
Rico  .iihI  St. Thomas.  Spectacular  hilltop  5-acre 
1 11  iih  hi  I  louse  -  2  bedrooms;  or  cottage  with  1 

Iroi  -ni  Private  beach.  ( >'l  Jay  19  sailboat  can  be 
included.  Hill  White.  Box  790,  Franconia,  N.H. 
(803)  823-5252  or  (787)  742-0042. 

I  AMID   1  .Allll  RING.  Newly  restored  National 
Register  house  on  32  acres  overlooking  Narragan- 

ii  li.  R..1  sleeps  jo.  11  bedrooms,  7.5  baths,  a 
kiu  hens.  2  laundries.  Private  tennis  court  and 

Near  Newport  and  transportation.  Available 
ks  in  summer.  (203)  259-  1916 


receive  your  fall  mailing,  please  contact 
reunion  headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947. 

Dexter  E.  Arrington  practices  obstetrics 
and  gynecology  in  Chicago  at  the  Southwest 
Center  for  Women's  Health.  He  can  be  reached 
at  416  E.  North  Water  St.,  Chicago  60611; 
dexdexdex@aol.com. 

Jonathan  M.  GutofF  joined  Roger 
Williams  University  School  of  Law,  Bristol, 
R.I.,  as  an  assistant  professor  of  law.  His  areas 
of  expertise  are  federal,  jurisdiction,  remedies, 
and  admiralty.  For  the  past  two  years  Jonathan 
taught  atTulane  University  Law  School. 

Laura  Haynes  and  her  husband,  Robert 
Collector,  announce  the  birth  of  Graham 
Wiley  Collector  on  Sept.  8.  Graham  joins 
brother  John,  6,  and  sister  Lizzie,  10.  Friends 
can  reach  Laura  at  660  Oak  Springs  Ln., 
Montecito,  Calif.  9310S;  (805)  969-5468. 

Carl  Spitzer  is  taking  a  six-month  sab- 
batical from  his  emergency-medicine  practice 
in  San  Francisco  to  contemplate  a  career  in 
the  environmental  held.  "My  wife,  Karen 
Goldberg,  our  sixteen-month-old  daughter, 
Zoe,  and  I  will  be  sailing  the  eastern  Caribbean 
on  our  catamaran.  Blue  Moon,  leaving Tortola, 
BVI,  in  early  December,"  Carl  writes.  He 
would  love  to  hear  from  friends  via  e-mail  at 
cspitzer@sirius.com. 


NEW  ZEALAND.  Trout  fishing  paradise  on  Lake 
Taupo.  quiet  resort  village.  (401)  434-1071. 

PROVENCE.  Charming  4-bedroom.  2-bath  village 
house.  Fireplace,  antiques,  terrace,  garden.  Small 
wine  town  near  Avignon.  (415)  536-2656. 

PROVENCE.  Delightful,  roomy  farmhouse. 
Roman/medieval  town.  (860)  672-6608. 

PROVENCE.  Lovely  hilltop  village  home  in 
Luberon.  Beautiful  views.  Pool.  Sleeps  4.  (847)  869- 
9096. 

ROME.  ITALY.  18th-century  country  villa.  Spec- 
tacular views.  Featured  in  Gourmet  magazine.  (609) 
921-8595. 

SOUTHERN  SPAIN.  Mountain  farm,  halt-hour 
from  Mediterranean.  60-foot  pool,  horses,  glorious 
scenery.  Cottage  and  three  studio  apartments,  trom 
$275  to  S495  per  week  (low  season).  (719)  687-9855 
or  lgs@tnet.es. 

ST.  MAARTEN.  Small,  private,  creamy  pink  villas 
on  the  sea.  Secluded  snorkelmg.Tahitian  gardens. 
1-3  bedrooms.  Maria  Licari,  (800)  942-6725. 

WEST  CORK,  IRELAND. Traditional  stone  cot- 
tage. Renovated.  2  bedrooms.  2  baths.  A.W.  Bates. 
282]  E.  3rd  St. .Tucson,  Ariz.  85716. 

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to:  Brown  Alumni  Magazine,  Box  iSsa.  Providence, 
R.I.  02912. 


I984 


Our  reunion  is  only  two  years  away.  Please 
contact  Darcy  Travlos  with  your  news  so  we 
can  pull  together  ideas,  suggestions,  and  vol- 
unteers for  our  15th.  Darcy  has  moved  to 
Paris  with  her  husband,  Chad,  after  spending  a 
grueling  summer  at  Middlebury  College 
attempting  to  gain  some  language  skills. They 
live  right  by  the  Eiffel  Tower  and  welcome 
visitors.  Darcy  can  be  reached  at  1,  rue  du 
Capitaine  Scott,  75015  Paris,  France;  (33)1-45- 
66-48-97;  darcage@aol.com. 

Fred  Brodie  and  Donna  Van  Alst  adopted 
Rafael  Irwin  Brodie  in  Guatemala  last  June. 
Rafael  was  born  Oct.  26,  1996,  and  "is  a  happy 
little  guy  -  energetic  and  quite  active,"  Fred 
reports.  Donna  received  her  M.S.W  from  the 
Rutgers  School  of  Social  Work  in  May.  Fred  is 
a  litigation  partner  at  Winthrop  Stimson  Put- 
nam &  Roberts  in  NewYork  City. They  can 
be  reached  at  dvanalst@aol.com  (home); 
2108727@mcimail.com  (work). 

Sue  Gulliver  Carlson  lives  in  Greenwich, 
Conn.,  with  her  husband,  Peter,  and  two  chil- 
dren: Scott.  2 '2,  and  Porter,  born  in  December 
1996.  Sue  is  enjoying  motherhood,  watching 
Scott  learn  left  from  right,  and  experiencing 
Porter's  first  year.  Sue  would  love  to  hear  from 
classmates  and  can  be  reached  at  9  Pilot  Rock 
Ln.,  Riverside,  Conn.  06878,  (203)  637-9141. 

Kirsten  Duckett  writes:"!  have  finally 
moved  to  Asia.  I  am  now  living  and  working 
just  south  of  Seoul,  South  Korea,  and  I  expect 
to  be  here  for  at  least  two  years.  I  teach  Eng- 
lish at  Samsung's  HR  Development  Center, 
which  provides  beautiful  surroundings  and  an 
intense  professional  challenge.  I  am  very 
happy  to  be  working  full-time  after  so  many 
years  of  under-employment  in  Europe.  My 
husband  is  now  taking  a  turn  at  being  the 
supportive  rather  than  the  supporting  spouse. 
I  welcome  contact  with  old  friends.  By  the 
way,  if  any  of  you  are  interested  in  where  I 
am.  just  look  at  the  cover  of  the  April  '96 
B.LU.That  is  a  picture  of  the  bedroom  com- 
munity where  I  now  live!"  Kirsten  can  be 
reached  c/o  Samsung  HRDC,  12-21  Kasil-Ri. 
Pokok-Myun.Yongin  City,  Kyongki-Do,  South 
Korea  449-810;  kduckett@sigma.shrdc.com 

Kevin  Gaynor  is  a  public  defender  in 
Old  Town  Alexandna.Va.  He  was  married  in 
1 992  to  Barb,  whom  he  met  in  law  school. 
They  live  with  their  dog.  Maddie,  and  two  cats, 
Calvin  and  Hobbes.  Kevin  can  be  reached  at 
Kevgaynor@aol  .com. 

Rodanthe  Nichols  Hanrahan  has  been 
living  in  Asia  for  several  years,  the  last  two  near 
Beijing.  She  previously  lived  in  Hong  Kong, 
where  she  returned  this  fall  with  her  husband, 
Paul;  daughter,  Kaley,  4;  and  newborn  son. 
Chris.  Rodanthe  reports  that  life  in  Beijing  is 
"a  little  slower-paced"  than  life  in  Hong  Kong 
and  that  "the  locals  are  very  interesting  and 
friendly  and  the  expats  a  hearty  bunch.  Paul 
and  I  both  learned  to  speak  conversational 
Mandarin,  and  it's  really  a  hoot  to  hear  us  talk." 
Rodanthe  can  be  reached  at  hanrahan@iuol. 
cn.net. 


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need,  she  says,  is  a  middle  ground  to  help 

aren't  a  sufficient  number  to  meet  these 

them  change  years  of  negative  behavior 

women's  needs."  According  to  Fox,  because 

patterns. 

women  tend  to  commit  nonviolent  crimes, 

As  coordinator  of  a  prison  program  that 

their  sentences  are  relatively  short,  so  they 

matched  inmates  with  volunteer  mentors. 

move  in  and  out  of  prison  quickly.  "Also," 

Fox  realized  that  female  inmates'  needs 

she  adds,  "men  more  frequently  have  a 

were  different  from  those  of  their  male 

home  to  return  to  after  being  released. 

counterparts.  This  was  especially  true  for 

while  women  have  to  establish  their  own 

transition  issues.  So  Fox  and  her  colleagues 

lomes  right  away." 

decided  to  develop  a  new  program  that 

Although  the  primary  purpose  of 

would  focus  solely  on  the  transitional  needs 

Women  in  Transition  is  to  help  the  female 

of  female  prisoners. 

)rison  population,  an  additional  mission  is 

The  two-year-old  Women  in  Transition 

community  education.  "So  many  of  these 

program  she  helped  establish  addresses 

women  have  suffered  abuse  and  need  emo- 

issues  that  affect  women  disproportionately, 

ional  support,"  Fox  says,  "but  most  people 

such  as  intermediate  housing,  drug  addic- 

lave only  a  stereotypical  image  of  a  female 

tion,  mental  illness,  parenting,  and  job 

prisoner  based  on  what  they've  seen  on  TV. 

counseling.  "Women  in  Transition  tries  to 

t's  this  image  that  we're  trying  to  change." 

bridge  the  gaps  between  pre-existing  com- 

-  Torri  Still 

Scott  Harris  has  been  living  in  Luxem- 
bourg for  two  years,  working  as  director  of 
finance  for  AlliedSignal  Catalysts  just  over  the 
border  in  Florange.  France.  He  and  his  wife. 
Gigi,  have  two  daughters:  Katie,  \Vz,  who  is 
finishing  her  first  year  at  the  American  School 
of  Luxembourg,  and  Julie,  2.  Gigi  is  active  at 
the  school  and  with  the  women's  club  of 
Luxembourg.  They  recently  visited  Erik 
Holm-Olsen  and  his  wife,  Anne,  in  Dar  Es 
Salaam, Tanzania,  where  Erik  works  for  USIA. 
Scott  can  be  reached  at  sgkinok@aol.com. 

Susan  S.  Klawans  was  promoted  to  pro- 
ject executive  in  Gilbane  Construction  Co.'s 
Boston  office.  She  began  her  construction 
career  in  1984,  when  she  joined  Gilbane  as 


management  trainee,  and  has  since  been  an 
assistant  engineer,  superintendent,  and  project 
engineer. 

Ken  McGraw  became  a  new  father 
when  Alexandra  Lindsey  was  born  July  29.  He 
reports  that  he,  Lisa,  and  Alexandra  are  all 
doing  great. 

Elizabeth  Wolfe  Morrison  and  Sean 
Morrison  '86  announce  the  birth  of  Corey 
Adam  on  May  2.  He  joins  Kyle,  4.  Elizabeth  is 
an  associate  professor  ot  management  and 
organizational  behavior  at  New  York  University, 
and  Sean  is  an  assistant  professor  of  geriatrics 
and  medicine  at  the  Mount  Sinai  Medical 
Center  in  New  York  City.  They  can  be  reached 
at  (212)  995-0548;  emornso@stern. nyu.edu. 


Sheila  McCann  Morrison  has  a  one- 
year-old  son,  Gavin.  She  has  been  in  Costa  Rica 
for  six  years  and  manages  Dole's  vegetable  oper- 
ations. Sheila  writes:  "I  wear  sunscreen  every 
day  because  my  old  Brown  roommate,  Rose- 
lyn  Epps,  a  dermatologist  in  Washington,  D.C., 
reminds  me  every  time  I  hear  from  her."  Sheila, 
her  husband,  Bob,  and  Gavin  welcome  visitors 
and  can  be  reached  at  smorriso@dla.co.cr. 

Mike  Olsen  is  happy  in  his  new  position 
at  Roberston,  Stephens  &  Co.  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, where  he  helps  develop  the  convertible- 
securities  department. 

Simone  Ravicz  had  a  son,  Rio,  last 
November.  She  finished  her  Ph.D.  in  clinical 
psychology  and  will  complete  her  residency  at 
Cedars  Sinai  Hospital  in  July.  She  plans  to  work 
part-time  until  she  takes  the  oral  exam  111  Jan- 
uary. Simone  would  love  to  hear  from  class- 
mates at  sjgcdd@aol.com  or  (619)  452-6934. 

James  M.  Slayton  writes:  "After  finishing 
an  M.B.A.  at  Harvard  in  June,  I  have  begun 
my  post  as  director  of  ambulatory  services. 
Department  of  Psychiatry,  at  the  Cambridge 
Public  Health  Commission. With  the  support 
and  assistance  of  the  Brown  University  chap- 
lain, my  partner  (Phillip  Hernandez)  and  I 
recently  led  a  successful  campaign  to  persuade 
the  Harvard  Board  ot  Ministry  to  allow  same- 
gender  blessing  services  in  Memorial  Church. 
Recently  we  visited  with  Eileen  Brucken- 
thal  Roush  and  Edward  Flinchem  '85. We 
send  a  special  warm  welcome  to  those  from 
Poland  House,  Unit  2  (1980-81),  and  our  class- 
mates from  West  Quad."  James  can  be  reached 
at  90  Forest  Hill  St.,  #1, Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 
02 130;  jslayton@mba1997.hbs.edu. 

Joanne  Weil  works  at  a  seventy-attorney 
corporate/securities  law  firm,  Morrison 
Cohen  Singer  &  Weinstein.  Joanne  has  been 
very  busy  the  last  few  years,  but  she  has  taken 
some  amazing  vacations,  such  as  one  to  Agadir, 
Morocco.  She  has  kept  in  touch  with  Robin 
Husney,  who  has  two  sons.  Joanne  can  be 
reached  atjweil@mcsw.com;  (212)  735-8630 
(work);  (212)  477-0366  (home). 


I985 


Deborah  A.  Baumgarten,  Atlanta,  writes:  "I 
was  recently  at  the  wedding  of  Gwen  Coen 
'87  in  New  York  City.  Teri  Cohen  Alpert. 
Anne-Marie  Prabulos  '87,  and  Jessica 
Lieber  Smolar  '87  were  also  in  attendance." 
Friends  can  reach  Deborah  at  1961  Mclendon 
Ave..  NE,  Atlanta  30307;  (404)  377-9019; 
dbaumga@emory.edu. 

Valerie  Dry-Henich-Hostettler  and 
her  husband  announce  the  birth  of  their  son, 
Morgan,  on  May  20  in  the  Commonwealth  of 
Dominica, West  Indies.  Last  year  Valerie  left 
the  world  of  fashion  and  marketing  in  New 
York  City,  where  she  was  advertising  director 
for  Polo  Ralph  Lauren,  to  live  the  Caribbean 
dream.  She  and  her  husband  own  and  run  the 
Ruins,  a  vegetarian  and  grilled-fish  cafe  and 
cooperative  artist  space  in  Roseau,  Donnnu  a. 
Valerie  is  finally  utilizing  her  urban-studies 


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degree  by  directing  efforts  to  revitalize  the 
historic  French  Quarter  of  the  eighteenth- 
century  capital. Valerie  invites  anyone  passing 
through  to  visit.  She  can  be  reached  at  Box 
2063,  Roseau.  Commonwealth  of  Dominica. 
West  Indies. 

Rick  Gilmore  writes: '"Until  this  year,  I 
thought  time  kept  everything  from  happening 
all  at  once.  This  spring.  I  defended  my  disser- 
tation and  earned  my  Ph.D.  in  cognitive  neu- 
roscience  from  Carnegie  Mellon  University. 
On  July  13,  my  wife.  Michelle  Katz  (Alabama 
'86).  and  daughter.  Eleanor.  2.  welcomed  a 
new  baby  girl.  Deborah  Claire  Gilmore,  into 
our  family.  Three  weeks  later,  we  moved  to 
State  College,  Pa.,  where  I  am  an  assistant 
professor  of  psychology  at  Penn  State.  We 
welcome  friends."  Rick  can  be  reached  at 
1104  Centre  Lane,  State  College  16801; 
rogilmore@psu.edu. 

Suzanne  Goldberg  and  her  partner, 
Paula  Ettelbrick,  announce  the  birth  of  Adam 
Bernard  Goldberg  Ettelbrick  on  March  1 1 . 
"He's  a  great  smiler  and  giggler,  and  he  can't 
wait  to  start  talking."  Suzanne  writes.  After  "a 
very  enjoyable  maternity  leave,"  Suzanne 
returned  to  work  as  a  staff  attorney  at  Lambda 
Legal  Defense  and  Education  Fund  in  Sep- 
tember. She  has  spent  the  past  six  years  work- 
ing on  a  wide  range  of  challenges  to  anti-gay 
discrimination.  Suzanne  can  be  reached  at 
sglldef@aol.com. 

Jim  Johnston  and  his  wife,  Pam  (Univer- 
sity of  Kentucky  '84),  announce  the  birth  of 
their  first  child.  Leah  Kay,  on  July  23.  Jim  is 
.111  engineering  manager  at  DataBeam.  and 
Pam  now  works  part-time  for  the  same  com- 
pany. They  can  be  reached  at  3805  Gillespies 
Glen,  Lexington,  Ky.  40514;  (606)  223-6369; 
jjohnston@databeam.com. 

Eileen  A.  Keneck  is  working  at  Boston 
Medical  Center  (formerly  Boston  City  Hos- 
pital) as  a  pediatric  emergency  physician. 
Eileen  writes; "My  husband,  Richard  Aubry, 
and  I  increased  our  family  by  two  feet  in 
June.  Caroline  Ann  Aubry  joined  big  brother 
Matthew."  Eileen  can  be  reached  at  24  Berk- 
shire Rd..  Needham,  Mass.  02192. 

Jon  Rozoff  has  moved  to  Chevy  Chase, 
Md.,  to  open  and  head  the  Washington,  DC, 
office  of  Cornerstone  Research,  a  finance  and 
economics  consulting  firm.  He  would  be  happy 
to  hear  from  Brown  friends  in  the  Washington 
area  and  can  be  reached  at  home  (301)  718- 
0543  or  at  work  (202)  467-8005. 

L.  Kady  Slavin  and  Peter  O'Halloran 
announce  the  birth  of  a  daughter.  Summer,  on 
Aug.  24.  Summer  joins  brother  Max,  2.  The 
family  is  happily  back  in  the  Atlanta  area,  where 
Kady  works  as  a  consultant  111  the  retail/ 'con- 
sumer-goods industry,  and  Peter  is  an  artist 
and  full-time  dad.  Friends  can  reach  them  at 
1 47s  Ridge  Point  1  )r..  Lawrenceville,  Ga.  30043; 
(770)  237-9882;  kslavin@intactix.com. 


Jones-Toms,  announce  the  birth  of  their  first 
child,  Michael  Carson  Toms,  on  June  26.  He 
was  born  six  days  after  the  couple's  tenth 
wedding  anniversary.  Steve  completed  a  neu- 
rosurgical residency  at  the  Cleveland  Clinic  in 
June.  He  and  his  expanding  family  moved  to 
Houston  last  summer,  where  Steve  is  complet- 
ing a  one-year  fellowship  at  M.D.Anderson 
Cancer  Hospital. The  family  can  be  reached  at 
2806  Russett  PI.  W,  Pearland.Tex.  77584. 

David  Bernstein  was  named  senior  pro- 
ducer of  E!  Entertainment  Television's  Talk 
Soup.  He  received  a  1994-95  Daytime  Emmy 
for  his  work  on  the  show.  David  can  be  reached 
at  10983  Wellworth  Ave.,  #311,  Los  Angeles, 
Calif.  90024;  dbernstein@eentertainment.com. 


I987 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  are  Lisa  Baker. 
co-president.  84  Garfield  PL,  #3,  Brooklyn, 
N.Y.  11215,  (718)  499-6107:  Trinita  Brown. 
co-president.  2916  Stephensen  PL,  NW, Wash- 
ington, DC.  20015,  (202)  244-0646;  Pam 
Gerrol,  secretary;  Matt  Sirovich,  treasurer; 
Diana  Reeves  Tejada,  program  chair;  and 
Bruce  Gardner  and  Jill  Schlesinger,  fund- 
raising. 

Eric  Dobson  became  deputy  director  of 
the  Alexandria  (Va.)  Economic  Development 
Partnership  in  November.  He  can  be  reached 
at  edobson@!capaccess.org. 

Julie  Andrews  Friend  and  Scott  Friend 
announce  the  birth  of  their  son,  Tynan  Harris, 
on  June  10.  Julie  and  Scott  went  to  the  wed- 
ding of  Thurston  Towle  at  Thurston's  family 
farm  in  Freedom,  N.H.  Scott  and  Josh  Levy 
were  members  of  the  wedding  party.  Julie  and 
Scott  can  be  reached  at  171  Reservoir  Rd., 
Chestnut  Hill,  Mass.  02167. 

Amy  Costa  Migdal  (see  Tom  Kong 
'81). 

Kirsten  J.  Robinson  writes:  "In  1996  my 
husband,  John,  and  I  mixed  two  cells  together 
and  created  an  entirely  new  human  being. 
Robin  Elizabeth  Schectman  was  born  on 
Christmas  Eve,  1996.  Stephanie  Grace  was 
one  of  her  first  visitors,  and  Evan  Fox  'Ss 
was  first  to  bestow  her  with  Brown  clothing. 
Robin  looks  forward  to  joining  Aaron  Tozer- 
Rich  and  Alex  Potter  in  the  class  of '2014. 
Her  e-mail  address  1sjrskjr@med1aone.net." 

Robert  Shea  and  Lisa  BraflT  Shea  '86 
announce  the  birth  of  Caleb  Daniel  on  Aug. 
23.  He  joins  big  brother  Noah,  2. They  live  in 
Barrington.  R.I.,  and  can  be  reached  at 
hsa_b_shea@brown.edu. 

Jay  Zaslow  '93  MD.  (see  Samantha 
Rai  '91). 


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th  Reunion 


1986 


Steve  Toms  '89  M.I ).  and  his  wife,  Helen 


Save  the  dates  for  our  10th  reunion.  May  22-2; 
Come  back  and  share  the  weekend  with  old 
friends  and  new.  Contact  reunion  headquar- 
ters at  (401)  863-1947  if  you  did  not  re<  eive 
the  fall  mailing. 


Michel  Bayard  (see  David  Given  '75). 

Kirsten  Bloomberg  Feldman  and 
Mark  Allen  Feldman  announce  the  birth  of 
Charlotte  Jane  Feldman,  on  July  27.  Charlotte 
joins  big  brother  Ethan.  2.  "We've  become  the 
nuclear  family,  and  we  love  it."  writes  Kirsten. 
The  family  can  be  reached  at  139  Norwood 
Ave.,  Newton,  Mass.  02160. 

Jane  Levine  married  David  Snyder  (Yale 
"88)  on  May  25.  Jane  is  the  daughter  of  Gail 
Caslowitz  Levine  '63  and  Bill  Levine  '64 
and  the  sister  of  Dan  '91.  There  was  a  large 
Brown  contingent  in  attendance  at  the  wed- 
ding. The  couple  lives  in  Cleveland,  where 
David  teaches  law  at  Cleveland-Marshall  Col- 
lege of  Law  and  Jane  is  director  at  a  local 
gallery. They  can  be  reached  at  2355  S.  Over- 
look Rd.,  Cleveland  Heights.  Ohio  44106. 

William  V.  Fogg  and  his  wife.Anna-Karin, 
announce  the  birth  of  Charles  Sanford  on  Nov. 
25.  1996.  Will  can  be  reached  at  135  E.  94th  St., 
New  York  City  10128;  nylawboy@aol.com. 

Dave  Morris  has  moved  back  to  New 
York  City  to  do  strategy  consulting  work  for 
Silicon  Valley  Internet  Partners.  He  plans  to 
move  to  San  Francisco  with  the  company  in 
about  a  year.  He  would  love  to  hear  from  friends 
at  124  W  60  St.,  #26N,  New  York  City;  (212) 
489-2034;  10023dave@unforgettable.com. 

Jennie  Niles,  a  master's  student  at  Yale's 
School  of  Management,  was  one  of  three  stu- 
dents to  intern  in  Connecticut's  Department 
of  Education  and  Office  of  Policy  and  Man- 
agement this  summer.  She  worked  for  the 
state's  commissioner  of  education  in  the  char- 
ter-school program  office.  Prior  to  attending 
graduate  school,  Jennie  directed  service-learn- 
ing programs,  developed  student-  leadership 
curricula,  and  taught  science  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy in  Andover,  Mass.,  and  the  Harvard- 
Westlake  School  in  Los  Angeles. 

Everett  Petronio  and  Ann  Nealon 
Petronio  '89  announce  the  arrival  of  their 
second  child,  Christopher  Everett,  on  April  2S 
To  make  room  for  their  expanding  family, 
they  have  moved  to  32  Longview  Dr..  Cranston, 
R.I.  02920.  Everett  is  practicing  law.  concen- 
trating primarily  in  the  commercial  area,  while 
Ann  is  a  promotions  specialist  at  the  Providence 
/('i/r/iii/.They  are  wondering  what  became  o\ 
K.O.H.  '89,  and  they  would  love  to  hear  from 
her  or  any  other  friends  at  their  new  address, 
or  at  loeap@aol.com. 

Joseph  G.  Petrosinelli  and  his  wife,  Kara 
(Virginia  '89),  announce  the  birth  of  their  first 
child,  Michael  Joseph,  on  June  19.  Joe  is  an 
attorney  at  Williams  &  Connolly,  a  litigation 
firm  in  Washington,  DC.  He  and  his  family 
can  be  reached  at  717  Putnam  PL,  Alexandria. 
Va.  22302. 

Nancy  Bach  Roberts  married  Bruce 
Roberts  (Harvard  '86;  Harvard  Law  '89)  on 
fune  8.  Brown  alums  in  attendance  included 
the  bride's  father.  Gil  Bach  '52;  her  sister. 
Amy  Bach  '90,  who  was  maid  of  honor;  and 
bridesmaids  Sara  Benenson  Goldberg  '88, 
Jaquie  Wasser  Trachtenberg  '88,  and 
Cristina  Fortenbaugh  Hemany  '87.  Nancy 
writes: "We  had  a  blast  at  our  wedding  and  a 


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great  time  traveling  to  the  Seychelles  Islands 
on  our  honeymoon.  I'm  enjoying  being  set- 
tled in  our  apartment  and  working  in  the  cul- 
tural-affairs department  at  Chase  Manhattan 
Bank.  I'm  also  finding  time  to  do  lots  of 
singing.  I'd  love  to  hear  from  anyone  at 
nancy.bach@chase.com." 

Gordon  Sayre  married  Marsha  Ginsberg 
(Cornell  '88)  on  June  22  at  Black  Butte 
Ranch,  Oreg.  Mary  Burke  and  Lowell 
Bowditch  '89  A.M.,  '92  Ph.D.  attended. The 
couple  lives  in  Eugene,  Oreg.,  where  Gordon 
teaches  English  at  the  University  ot  Oregon 
and  Marsha  teaches  upper-school  English  at 
the  Oak  Hill  School.  Gordon  can  be  reached 
at  gsayre@oregon.uoregon.edu. 

Emil  Shieh  is  an  ophthalmologist  prac- 
ticing in  the  San  Francisco  Bay  Area.  He  got 
married  in  July  and  honeymooned  in  Greece 
and  Turkey.  His  wife. Victoria,  is  pursuing  a 
degree  in  human-resource  management.  The 
couple  resides  in  Marin  County  and  can  be 
reached  at  1490  S.  Novato  Blvd.,  #13,  Novato, 
Calif.  94947;  emilshieh@mem.po.com. 

Gregory  W.  Sullivan.  Alexandria, Va.,  has 
returned  to  Washington,  D.C.,  for  a  domestic 
assignment  with  the  Department  of  State. 
Gregg  spent  two  years  in  Egypt  and  two  years 
in  South  Africa.  A  miserable  letter  writer, 
Gregg  would  love  to  hear  from  any  ot  the 
Point  Crew  and  the  Glasgow  Gang  who  are 
still  talking  to  him.  He  can  be  reached  at  (703) 
960-5801;  egfa@aol.com. 

Claudia  Nenno  Trombly  '92  M.D.  mar- 
ried Michael  Trombly  on  May  3  in  Wellesley, 
Mass.  Bridesmaids  included  Claudia's  sister, 
Nancy  Nenno  '87  Ph.D.  and  Debbie  Benoit 
Harris  '90  M.D.  Claudia  finished  her  residency 
m  family  medicine  at  Memorial  Hospital  of 
Rhode  Island  in  199s.  She  now  works  for  a 
nonprofit  organization  called  HOPE  worldwide 
New  England,  serving  as  medical  director  for 
a  mobile  medical  clinic  for  abused  children, 
homeless  women  and  children,  and  incarcer- 
ated adolescent  girls.  She  can  be  reached  at 
378  Broadway.  #2,  Maiden,  Mass.  02148. 

Kirk  E.Watson  married  Sharon  S.  Lee 
(Michigan  '89,  M.D.  '92)  in  Grosse  Pointe  Park. 
Michigan,  on  May  iS,  1996. They  live  in  Santa 
Monica,  Calif.  Kirk  is  an  attorney  and  practices 
civil  litigation,  and  Sharon  is  a  staff  physician 
with  the  UCLA  Neuropsychiatry  Institute.  Kirk 
can  be  reached  at  kwatson@girardikeese.com. 


I989 


Christine  Alfano  and  Christian  Smith  have 

welcomed  a  potential  Brown  alum  into  their 
house  and  hearts.  Miranda  Rose  Alfano-Smith 
was  born  on  Aug.  15.  Although  she  doesn't 
have  her  dad's  red  hair,  she  does  have  his 
smile.  Crissy  is  an  assistant  professor  at  the 
University  of  Colorado  at  Denver,  and  Snntty 
is  a  rocket  scientist.  They  can  be  reached  at 
4610  Greenbriar  Ct.,  Boulder,  Colo.  80303; 
calfano@carbon.cudenver.edu;  BoulderCSA@ 
aol.com. 

Bruce  Chorpita  and  Catherine  Sustana 


'90  finished  graduate  school  (finally!),  earning 
Ph.D.s  from  the  state  university  at  Albany  in 
August. They  have  moved  to  Honolulu,  where 
Bruce  is  an  assistant  professor  of  clinical  psy- 
chology and  director  of  the  Child  Stress  and 
Anxiety  Clinic  at  the  University  of  Hawaii. 
Catherine  is  an  assistant  professor  of  English 
at  Hawaii  Pacific  University. They  are  amazed 
at  their  new  surroundings  and  are  still  trying 
to  figure  out  how  they  got  so  lucky.They  can 
be  reached  at  chorpita@hawaii.edu. 

Marc  Edelstein  and  his  coauthor, Julian 
Cohen,  have  been  published  on  the  Internet. 
The  URL  for  "The  E-C  Tether:  A  Proposal 
for  Rapid  Interstellar  Communication"  on 
the  Penn  State  Science  Consortium  home- 
page is  http://www.personal.psu.edu/dept/ 
scifi/science/index.html.  Marc  can  be  reached 
at  edemar@cordis-corp-us.e-mail.com. 

Marci  Hecker  Fox  and  David  Fox 
announce  the  birth  of  their  daughter.  Laurel 
Elizabeth,  on  July  16.  The  Fox  family  lives  in 
Chicago,  where  Marci  is  a  survey  director  at 
the  National  Opinion  Research  Corporation 
(NORC)  and  David  is  a  fellow  in  vascular 
surgery  at  Loyola  University.  They  can  be 
reached  at  foxmh@aol.com. 

IN    THE   NEW! 

Closing  the  Gap:  In  a  column  in  Integrated 
System  Design's  September  issue,  Silicon 
Valley-based  computer  whiz  Henry  Chang 
'89  recalled  building  his  first  electronic  sys- 
tem -  a  hard-disk  controller  -  in  a  Brown 
course,  Engineering  164,  Design  of  Computing 
Systems.  Chang's  article  focused  on  the 
elimination  of  gaps  "between  design  ability 
and  design  potential"  in  the  virtual  chip. 


Michael  Goldstein  practices  environ- 
mental law  with  the  firm  of  GunsterYoakley 
in  south  Florida.  He  serves  as  chair  of  the 
Dade  County  Brownfields  Task  Force,  a  group 
of  stakeholders  developing  incentives  to  pro- 
mote environmental  restoration  and  economic 
development  in  the  urban  core.  He  has  also 
recently  completed  terms  on  the  city  of  Miami's 
zoning  board  and  historic  and  environmental 
preservation  board  and  was  elected  to  the 
Coconut  Grove  village  council.  He  welcomes 
old  friends  at  the  Floridian,  650  West  Ave., 
#2406,  Miami  Beach  33139;  (305)  962-7669; 
mgoldstein@gunster.com. 

Mark  J.  Guasp  received  an  M.B.A.  from 
Duke  University's  Fuqua  School  of  Business. 
He  now  works  for  McNeil  Consumer  Prod- 
u<  ts  (  ',0.  in  the  Philadelphia  area  as  an  assistant 
product  director."!  have  kept  in  touch  with 
Darryl  Heggans  and  Darlene  R.  Currie 
'87,"  Mark  writes.  He  can  be  reached  at  30 
Ramsgate  Court,  Blue  Bell,  Pa.  19422; 
mjguasp@aol.com. 


Genevieve  Kelly  was  appointed  assistant 
general  counsel-Europe  for  ITT  Sheraton 
Corp.  She  can  be  reached  at  Ave.  de  la 
Raquette,  7;  1150  Brussels,  Belgium;  genkelly@ 
compuserve.com. 

Alex  May  married  Christopher  Drew 
(Dartmouth  '89)  in  Newport,  R.I.,  in  June 
1996.  Many  Brown  alumni  from  the  classes  of 
'88  and  '89  attended  the  ceremony.  Alex 
writes:  "I  have  been  living  in  New  York  and 
working  as  a  management  consultant  for  the 
last  few  years.  My  husband  and  I  will  be  mov- 
ing to  Dallas  by  the  end  of  the  year."  Alex  can 
be  reached  at  almay@dttus.com. 

Matthew  S.  Merrick  married  Susan 
Gawlick  (from  Buffalo.  N.Y.)  on  November 
22  in  Chicago.  "Susan  and  I  met  two  years 
ago  while  I  was  getting  my  M.B.A.  from 
Harvard  Business  School.  We  hope  to  be  in 
Chicago  for  a  long  time.  Susan  recently  began 
teaching  at  Lake  Forest  High  School  north 
of  the  city."  Matthew  can  be  reached  at  1538 
West  George  St.,  #1,  Chicago  60657; 
mmerrick@currentassets.com. 

David  Nassau  bought  a  house  in  San 
Ramon,  Calif,  with  his  wife,  Millie,  and 
their  2-year-old  son,  Jacob.  David  is  working 
as  a  senior  programmer/writer  for  MDL 
Information  Systems  111  San  Leandro,  Calif, 
and  would  like  to  hear  from  old  friends  at 
davidn@mdli.com. 

Stina  Wedlock  (see  Eldon  D.  Wedlock 
Jr.  '64). 


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Jon  Birger  and  Laura  Grossfield  Birger 

both  changed  jobs.  Jon  is  covering  Wall  Street 
as  a  reporter  for  Crain's  New  York  Business. 
while  Laura  has  left  private  practice  and  is  an 
assistant  U.S.  attorney  in  Manhattan.  Jon  would 
love  to  hear  from  classmates  working  as  invest- 
ment bankers  or  money  managers.  He  can  be 
reached  atjbirger@crain.com. 

Jennifer  Lumelleau  Caraballo  and  Vic- 
tor Caraballo  '88,  '91  M.D.  announce  the 
arrival  of  Benjamin  Victor  on  July  2. They 
are  living  in  Philadelphia,  where  Victor  is  an 
emergency-medicine  physician  at  the  Univer- 
sity ot  Pennsylvania  and  Jennifer  is  an  attor- 
ney for  the  city.  They  would  love  to  hear  from 
anyone  in  the  area. 

Jon  Davis  married  Kim  Chabot  (Har- 
vard '90,Virgima  M.A.  '95)  on  May  31  in 
Andrews  Hall.  The  wedding  party  included 
Dan  Davis  '87,  Marie  Edesess,  Bill  Kelly, 
and  Mike  Walton  '91.  Lisa  Fagin  Davis  '87 
sang  during  the  ceremony,  Dave  Bruno  was 
a  reader,  and  Zoe  Davis  (Dan  and  Lisa's  daugh- 
ter) was  the  flower  girl.  Jon  is  a  lawyer  at 
Wilmer,  Cutler  &  Pickering  in  Washington, 
DC,  and  can  be  reached  at  3723  W  St.,  NW, 
Washington,  D.C.  20007;  (-02)  965-6903; 
jdavis@wilmer.com. 

Randy  Faigin  and  Ken  David,  Atlanta, 
announce  the  birth  of  their  son.  Adam  Leo 
David  on  July  31.  The  excited  family  includes 
grandmother  Barbara  Chernell  Faigin  '63 


BROWN    ALUMNI    MAGAZINE    ♦    7] 


and  uncle  Andrew  David  '92. 

Samantha  Garbus  was  elected  vice 
president,  property  management,  atW.P.  Carey 
&"  Co.  Her  responsibilities  include  lease  com- 
pliance, the  restructuring  of  lease  agreements, 
and  the  refinancing  of  mortgage  loans. 
Samantha,  who  received  an  M.B.A  from  New 
York  University's  Stern  School  of  Business, 
joined  the  firm  in  1992  as  an  associate. 

Elise  (Bisi)  Burden  Hoblitzelle.  Water- 
town,  Mass.,  writes: "How  quickly  life  changes! 
On  July  4th  I  gave  birth  to  a  healthy  baby 
boy,  Oliver  Andrew  Hoblitzelle.  He  surprised 
my  husband  and  me  by  arriving  ten  days 
early.  Motherhood  is  wonderful  and  challeng- 
ing. I  would  love  to  hear  from  other  folks  in 
the  Boston  area  at  bisihob@aol.com." 


1991 


.. 


THE    NEWS 


Fireworks:  Lisa  Loeb  '90  told  Billboard 
Magazine  in  October  that  the  songs  on  her 
new  album,  Firecracker  (Geffen  Records), 
focus  on  relationships  "both  fictional  and 
real,  some  poetic,  some  straightforward." 
The  album's  first  single,  "I  Do,"  is  steadily 
climbing  Billboard's  Hot  Singles  chart. 


Torri  Connell  Horovitz  writes:  "Alex, 
Daniel,  and  I  have  returned  to  New  England 
from  northern  California.  We  are  living  about 
thirty  miles  outside  of  Boston.'The  family  can 
be  reached  at  407  Great  Rd.,  #10,  Acton.  Mass. 
01720;  (97S)  264-3176;  alextorn@aol.com. 

Ann  Lightcap  married  Paul  Bruno  on 
June  15  in  Latrobe,  Pa.  David  Bruno,  the 
groom's  brother,  served  as  best  man.  Ann  is  a 
college  counselor  and  English  teacher  at  Lake 
Forest  Academy,  and  Paul  is  working  toward 
his  Ph.D.  in  philosophy  from  Boston  College. 
They  can  be  reached  at  1500  W.  Kennedy  Rd., 
Lake  Forest,  111.  6004s;  ahghtca@lfa.lfc.edu. 

Gregson  Pigott  '94  M.D.  and  Magali 
Parisien  Pigott  '89  (Boston  University  '95 
M.D),  who  were  married  in  June  1994,  an- 
nounce the  birth  of  Jasmine  Michele  on  Aug. 
31.  Greg  completed  his  residency  in  internal 
medicine  and  is  an  attending  physician  atYou- 
ville  Hospital  in  Cambridge.  Mass.  Magali  is 
in  the  third  year  ot  her  internal-medicine  res- 
idency at  Cambridge  Hospital. They  may  be 
reached  at  66  California  St..Watertown,  Mass. 
02172;  Greg  at  ghpigott@  pol.net;  Magali  at 
mmppigot(«  ■111assmed.org. 

Kim  Wright  writes: "After  a  seven-year 
stmt  111  the  San  Francisco  Bay  Area  as  .1  social 
worker.  I've  attempted  a  triumphant  return  to 
the  Big  Apple.  I'm  eagerly  awaiting  news  from 
friends  in  the  classes  of'87  10  '93. As  I'm  sub- 
letting from  classmate  Jaykumar  Menon.  it 
feels  like  old  times."  Kim  can  be  reached  at  [89 
1  llaremont  Ave., #52,  New  York  City  10027; 
■  1  ■  1  749-8870. 


Allison  Baird  married  Stewart  Lewack  on 
Oct.  4  m  Little  Compton,  R.I.  Allison  works 
in  the  fixed-income  research  division  of  Reuters 
as  a  manager  for  the  emerging  markets  group, 
while  Stewart  is  an  account  executive  for  Jaf- 
tom  &  Collins  Inc.,  an  investor  relations  tirm 
based  in  New  York  City. 

Ken  Bartholomew  and  Sandy  Steen 
Bartholomew  (RISD  '92)  announce  the  birth 
of  a  son,  Alexander,  on  Sept.  5.  They  live  in 
Warner,  N.H.,  where  Sandy  is  an  artist  and 
owns  a  rubber  stamp  company.  Ken  is  an  attor- 
ney with  Rath  Young  &  Pignatelli  in  Con- 
cord. N.H.  Ken  can  be  reached  at  57  Kearsarge 
Mountain  Rd.,  #2,  Warner  03278;  kcb@rath 
law.com. 

Colin  Credle  worked  at  Project  HOPE 
for  three  years,  delivering  medicine  and 
humanitarian  aid  to  war  zones  and  ecological 
disaster  areas  in  the  former  Soviet  Union. 
Afterward,  he  helped  start  an  international 
steel-trading  firm  m  Moscow.  After  working 
for  the  same  firm  in  Kiev,  Ukraine,  he  went 
to  Nagano,  Japan,  home  of  the  1998  winter 
Olympics,  where  he  worked  for  Spoils  Illustrated. 
Homesick,  he  returned  to  New  England  to 
find  a  job.  He  can  be  reached  at  7  Rockland 
St.,  Nashua,  N.H.  03060. 

Jane  (Jenny)  Driver  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Pittsburgh  Medical  School  with 
honors  in  May.  She  was  awarded  a  scholarship 
for  her  research  and  work  in  promoting  prob- 
lem-based learning  in  the  medical  school  cur- 
riculum. In  addition,  the  student  body  voted 
her  the  recipient  of  the  Jamie  Sheehan/Laird 
Cheke  Memorial  Prize  as  the  medical  student 
best  exemplifying  a  physician  who  recognizes 
the  patient  as  human.  Jane  also  initiated  and 
organized  a  ceremony  in  which  twenty  of 
the  graduates  chose  to  take  the  revised  Hip- 
pocratic  Oath,  which  affirms  the  dignity  of 
life  and  a  physician's  decision  to  refrain  from 
performing  an  abortion.  Jane  is  currently  a 
resident  in  medicine  at  Beth  Israel/Deaconess 
Hospital  in  Boston. 

Kelley  Katzner  Ellman  and  [effrey  Ell- 
man  (Harvard  Law  '91)  were  married  on  Aug.  3 
in  Sylvania,  Ohio.  The  wedding  party  included 
Jody  Katzner  '86,  Adam  Spector  '90, 
and  Christine  Shin  Yin.  The  Ellmans  reside 
in  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  can  be  reached  at 
kellman@earthlink.net. 

Jared  Poppel  has  been  working  at  World 
Research  Group  in  New  York  since  June.  He 
is  producing  senior-level  business  conferences 
on  such  diverse  topics  as  push  technology, 
mining  111  Latin  America,  and  the  development 
of  corporate  virtual  communities.  He  is  hard 
at  work,  along  with  Ted  Martin  '60,  Jon 
Huyck  9i.Thano  Chaltas  '87,  Dwight  Carl- 
son '90.  Liam  Murphy  '85  and  Skip  Dan- 
forth  '52,  at  putting  together  the  soth  anni- 
versary reunion  for  the  Jabberwocks  in  1999. 
I  led  love  to  hear  from  friends  and  J.ibberwock 
alums  alike  at  38  Range  Dr..  Merrick.  N.Y. 
i  [566;  (516)  S67-3S4S; jaredpoppel@worldnet. 
alt.net. 


Claudia  Radel  writes: "I  have  returned 
to  the  United  States  after  working  tor  several 
years  in  Colombia  and  have  started  a  doctoral 
program  in  geography  at  Clark  University. 
Michael  Torrens  '90  will  be  joining  me  in 
Worcester  in  January,  and  we  look  forward  to 
hearing  from  old  friends,  especially  those  in 
the  New  England  area."  Claudia  can  be 
reached  at  the  Graduate  School  ot  Geography, 
Clark  University.  950  Main  St. .Worcester, 
Mass.  01610;  claudia@radel.com. 

Samantha  Rai  married  Jay  Zaslow  '87, 
'93  M.D.  in  October  1996.  Jay,  a  family  physi- 
cian, is  on  the  clinical  faculty  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  Family  and  Community  Medicine  at 
UC  San  Francisco.  Samantha  graduated  from 
medical  school  in  May  and  is  a  resident  in 
family  practice.  They  can  be  reached  at  2 181 
Blucher Valley  Rd.,  Sebastopol,  Calif.  95472; 
(707)  829-7889;  razai@ix.netcom.com.  (The 
phone  number  published  in  the  September/ 
October  BAM  was  incorrect.) 

Julie  Ann  Randall  moved  to  Reggio 
Emilia,  Italy,  in  July  1996  to  take  a  position  at 
Nike  Italy,  where  she  is  a  sales  analyst.  She  ran 
her  first  marathon  111  Florence,  Italy,  in  Decem- 
ber 1996  and  competed  in  the  Gran  Fondo  (a 
130-km  bicycle  race)  of  Reggio  Emilia  in 
June  1997.  "I  have  just  returned  from  a  fabu- 
lous vacation  in  the  States,  where  I  attended 
the  wedding  of  Lisa  Langhaug  '89  and 
Robin  Wigmore,"  Julie  writes.  "The  best  woman 
was  Lisa's  sister,  Kathy  Langhaug  Letellier, 
and  best  man  was  Larry  Letellier  '89.  Lisa 
and  Robin  live  in  Harare,  Zimbawe,  where 
they  can  be  reached  at  fox@harare.iafrica.com." 
Julie  can  be  reached  at  Via  Bisi  1/3,42100 
Reggio  Emilia  (RE),  Italy;  011/39/522/920539; 
julieann  @comune.re.it. 

Raj  R.  Singh  writes:  "In  June.  Richard 
Halstead  married  Luhe  Howard  at  St.  Barn- 
abas Church  in  London.  The  couple  jetted  off 
to  the  Caribbean  and  Disney  World  for  their 
honeymoon.  On  July  12.  Briel  Schwartz 
married  John  Sehmitz  (Boston  University  '91) 
at  Valley  Church  on  San  Juan  Island,  Washing- 
ton.The  bridal  party  included  Jennifer  Fries 
Singh,  Jaimie  Shapiro  '92,  Sarah  Francis 
Holmes,  and  Allison  Karmel  Thomason. 
Briel  teaches  at  the  University  Child  Devel- 
opment School  in  Seattle,  while  John  is  a 
teacher  and  an  artist.  The  couple  honey- 
mooned on  the  Iberian  Peninsula."  Raj  and 
his  wife,  Jennifer  Fries  Singh,  are  still  111 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  Raj  is  working  on  a 
Ph.D.  in  urban  studies  and  planning  at  MIT 
and  Jen  is  the  director  of  a  battered  women's 
shelter  and  rape  crisis  program. They  can  be 
reached  at  (617)  354-0281;  rajsingh@mit.edu; 
orjensingh@aol.com. 

Paul  Souza  is  h\ing  in  Boston  and  work- 
ing as  an  assistant  vice  president  at  Interna- 
tional Special  Risks,  an  insurance  brokerage 
firm  specializing  in  maritime  interests.  He  can 
be  reached  at  pjsoceanWaol.com. 

Naomi  Suzuki  married  Gregory  Azrak 
(Virginia  '91),  the  son  of  Raymond  Azrak 
'64,  on  July  19  at  Keystone  Resort  111  Colorado. 
The  couple  met  at  J.  P.  Morgan  111  New  York 


72    •  JANUAR  1      II   It  III  Alll      1998 


ABBY     ROSIN     '94 

Role  Models  with 
Rhythm 

A  Master  of  Social  Work 

Ten  months  after  she  graduated,  Abby  Rosin 
still  did  not  have  a  job.  "I  wanted  a  job  where 
I  could  work  with  at-risk  adolescents,"  she 
says,  "but  I  didn't  have  a  master's  degree  in 
social  work."  Rather  than  continue  to  wait  for 
opportunity  to  knock,  Rosin  created  an  oppor- 
tunity for  herself  and  for  dozens  of  inner-city 
girls. 

Her  involvement  in  dance  and  theater 
had  taught  Rosin  that  the  arts  could  be  "a 
source  of  joy  and  community."  And  while 
working  in  a  prison,  she  witnessed  firsthand 
the  enthusiastic  response  of  female  inmates 
to  role  models  who  "valued  and  treated  them 
like  human  beings."  Drawing  from  these 
experiences,  Rosin  created  Groove  with  Me,  a 
Manhattan-based  nonprofit  organization  that 
provides  free  dance  classes  to  underprivi- 
leged girls. 

In  operation  for  a  year  now,  Groove  with 
Me  currently  provides  forty  girls  (and  an 
occasional  boy)  aged  seven  to  fourteen  with 
classes  in  tap,  modern,  hip-hop,  funk,  Brazil- 


#ft'** 


ian,  folk,  and  African  dance.  The  program 
essentially  runs  at  no  cost;  seven  volunteer 
teachers  conduct  the  classes  in  space  donated 
by  community  centers.  Starting  up  a  non- 
profit is  no  picnic;  Rosin  is  still  struggling  to 
pay  for  liability  insurance  and  administrative 
salaries. 

The  human  benefits,  however,  are  tangi- 
ble. "In  three  months,"  Rosin  says,  "I  have 
seen  marked  improvement.  [The  students] 
are  more  disciplined,  affectionate,  and  confi- 
dent. Dance  helps  quiet  kids  overcome  their 
shyness." 

Rosin  and  her  fellow  teachers  also  take 
the  kids  on  field  trips  to  the  Broadway  Dance 
Center,  where  they  watch  professionals  audi- 


li&Ai 


New  York  City 
children  (left) 
experience  the 
joy  of  dance, 
thanks  to  Abby 
Rosin  (above) 
and  her  fellow 
teachers. 


tion  for  parts.  "I  love  hearing  the  girls  dream- 
ing out  loud.  They  talk  about  wanting  to  be 
in  music  videos  or  on  Broadway,"  Rosin  says. 
"They  are  inspired  to  do  their  own  choreog- 
raphy for  their  shows." 

In  spite  of  the  struggle  to  find  funding, 
Rosin  intends  to  continue  the  program  and 
eventually  to  acquire  permanent  space  for  it. 
"I  see  how  the  girls  worship  the  ground  their 
teachers  walk  on,"  Rosin  explains,  "and  how 
they  miss  them  when  they're  away.  These 
kids  don't  have  a  lot  of  adults  whom  they 
adore.  So  for  an  hour  and  a  half  a  day  we  try 
to  provide  total,  unconditional  love.  You 
don't  have  to  have  a  master's  in  social  work 
to  be  a  role  model."  -  Torri  Still 


City,  where  they  both  have  been  working  tor 
more  than  six  years,  Naomi  in  fixed-income 
sales  and  Greg  m  futures  sales.  Many  Brown 
friends  were  m  attendance,  including  maid  ot 
honor  Masami  Suzuki  '91  and  bridesmaid 
Lisa  Colasanti  Bhimani  '91.  Naomi  can  be 
reached  at  157  E.  57th  St.,  #is;B,  New  York 
City  10022:  suzuki_naomi@jpmorgan.com. 

Brian  Walch  and  his  wife,  Myrna. 
announce  the  birth  of  their  first  child,  Ana- 
Gabriela,bom  |uly  15.  Brian  can  be  reached 
at  2743  Gallows  Rd.,  #202, Vienna. Va.  22180. 


1992 


The  newly  elected  class  officers  are:  Stephanie 
Truesdell,  president.  41  Ge11tcnn1.il  Dr..  #11, 
Norwood.  Mass.  02062,  (781)  2.55-0789,  (617) 
495-9126,  acsslt(S  ziplink.net;  Troy  Centazzo. 
co-president,  103  Northfield  Circle,  Char- 
lottesville, Va.  22901 .  (S04)  975-091 1 ;  Mary 


Elizabeth  Grace,  secretary;  Dan  O'Connell, 
treasurer;  Rebecca  Thayer  Bliss,  annual  giv- 
ing chair;  Deborah  List.  Cindy  Cramer, 
Dolly  Hernandez,  and  Paisley  Denipy, 

events  coordinators;  and  Ken  Padilla  and 
Marc  Harrison,  BAA  program  chairs/liaisons. 

Eliot  Fisk  works  in  London  for  the 
international  law  firm  Lovell  White 
Durrant.  He  can  be  reached  at  eliot.fisk(a; 
lovellwhitedurrant.com. 

Catherine  Harbour  enjoyed  seeing 
'y2ers  at  the  reunion  in  May,  but  lost  all  the 
napkins  with  e-mail  addresses  and  phone 
numbers.  Please  send  them  to  1104  N. 
Greensboro  St..  #9,  Carrboro,  N.C.  27510; 
charbour@sph.unc.edu. 

Junwoo  Lee  completed  his  M.B.A.  at 
Wharton  and  returned  to  Seoul  to  work  at 
Boston  Consulting  Groups  Seoul  office. 
Royal  Park  is  Mt  intern/resident  at  the  New 
York  University-affiliated  hospital. Jaeson 
Kim  is  .1  senior  staff  member  at  Oracle  Corp. 


in  San  Francisco.  Jason  Jaebum  Kim  '91 
returned  to  Korea  to  work  in  the  Asian  Equi- 
ties Division  of  SBC  Warburg  after  working 
briefly  in  Hong  Kong.  Chul-Joo  Lee  '95  is 
now  in  the  investment-banking  division  of 
Morgan  Stanley's  Seoul  office.  Jim  Yang  '91 
has  joined  the  investment-banking  division  of 
Merrill  Lynch's  Seoul  office.  After  working  at 
the  NHK  News  Network  in  Tokyo,  Jaiun 
Lamont  '91  returned  to  Seoul  to  be  an 
anchorwoman  at  the  Arirang  Channel  Net- 
work. Sangyeup  Lee  is  an  associate  at 
Latham  &  Watkms  m  New  York.  Sukjin  Lim, 
after  working  at  a  law  firm  in  Manhattan, 
returned  to  Seoul  to  work  at  Shin  &  Kim,  .1 
Korean  law  firm.  Sukjin  can  be  reached  at 
steveHm@unitel.co.kr.  (Sukjin  Lim  sent  111  this 
note.) 

Katie  Lott  married  Paul  Schnorr  at  her 
grandparents' home  in  Ephr.iim.Wis.,  on  Aug. 
9.  Brown  friends  in  attendance  included  brides- 
maid Rachel  SolotarofT.  Katie  is  completing 


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an  M.A.T.  in  elementary  education,  and  she 
and  Paul  are  renovating  a  ioo-year-old  Victo- 
rian house  in  Chicago.  They  can  be  reached  at 
3269  W.Wrightwood  Ave.,  Chicago  60647. 

Lisa  P,esnek  married  Chris  Wyett  (Har- 
vard '89)  on  May  25.  Lisa  is  a  merchandise 
coordinator  for  Hermes,  and  Chris  is  a  corpo- 
rate lawyer  at  Cravath  Swine  &  Moore.  They 
live  in  Manhattan  with  their  dogs,  Maxine 
and  Izzy. 

Carlos  Solis  Jr.  is  living  and  working  in 
Japan  as  an  English  teacher  on  the  JET  (Japa- 
nese Exchange  and  Teaching)  Program.  Carlos 
writes:  "I'd  have  to  say  this  is  the  ultimate 
minority  experience  for  a  variety  of  reasons, 
not  least  of  which  is  being  in  a  foreign  coun- 
try where  it  sometimes  feels  like  you're  on 
another  planet."  Carlos  can  be  reached  at  River- 
side Mansion  206,  689  Kimura,  Kakogawa- 
Cho-Shi,  Hyogo-Ken,  675  Japan;  roguenin@ 
hotmail.com. 

Jocelyn  Wagner  married  Jeff  Thomas 
(UCLA  '89,  UCSF  '97  M.D.)  at  San  Francis- 
co's Grace  Cathedral  on  June  14.  Priya 
Ghumman  was  maid  of  honor,  and  Ashley 
Romaine  '91  was  a  bridesmaid.  Jocelyn  and 
Jeff  live  in  San  Francisco,  where  Jeff  is  a  med- 
ical resident  at  the  UCSF  Mount  Zion  hos- 
pital, and  Jocelyn  teaches  second  grade.  They 
would  enjoy  hearing  from  Brown  alums  at 
(415)  469-9630. 


1993  0 


th  Reunion 


Save  the  dates  for  our  5th  reunion,  May 
22-25.  Come  back  and  share  the  weekend 
with  old  friends  and  new.  Contact  reunion 
headquarters  at  (401)  863-1947  if  you  did  not 
receive  the  tall  mailing. 

Michael  Adams  is  finishing  his  final  year 
of  study  at  UMDNJ-New  Jersey  Medical 
School.  He  is  planning  to  do  a  residency  in 
orthopedic  surgery.  Michael  can  be  reached  at 
45  EderTerr.,  South  Orange,  N.J.  07079; 
madams@umdnj.edu. 

Nicole  Barber  is  teaching  at  Providence 
Country  Day  School  and  coaching  women's 
soccer  at  Rhode  Island  College.  She  would 
love  to  hear  from  former  soccer,  hockey,  or 
sottball  teammates. 

Andrew  Borodach  graduated  from  Har- 
vard Law  School  in  June  and  moved  to  New 
York  City  to  work  as  an  associate  in  the  cor- 
porate department  of  Debevoise  &  Plimpton. 
Andrew  can  be  reached  at  4  E.  70th  St.,  #7C 
New  York  City  10026. 

Gary  Breslow  completed  a  year's  leave  of 
absence  from  NYU  medical  school,  which  he 
spent  researching  developmental  and  cancer 
biology.  1  le  is  finishing  his  last  year  at  NYU  and 
is  applying  for  residency  programs.  Gary  <:.m 
be  reached  at  S64  1st  Ave.,  tf  12-U,  New  York 
(  n\   too  16;  breslgoi (Sjpopmail.med.nyu.edu. 

Marcy  Griem  Calaway  is  taking  .1  break 
from  her  career  in  management  consulting  to 
spend  two  yens  at  the  University  of  <  Chicago 
getting  her  M.li.A.  Marcy  and  her  husband. 
Jim  in  ,  in  enjoying  ( !hi<  ago  ami  are  active 


with  golf,  bridge,  and  curling.  This  year  Marcy 
entered  the  Olympic  trials  in  curling.  The 
couple  would  love  to  hear  from  friends  at  420 
East  Ohio,  #isA,  Chicago  6061 1. 

Derek  Chauvette  (see  David  Given 
'75). 

Rachel  Collin  got  a  master's  in  zoology 
from  the  University  ofWashington  in  1996 
and  is  working  toward  a  Ph.D.  in  evolutionary 
biology  at  the  University  of  Chicago.  "I'll  be 
spending  the  winter  doing  fieldwork  in  Baja," 
Rachel  reports.  "Previous  fieldwork  has  taken 
me  to  California,  Florida,  and  Jamaica."  Rachel 
can  be  reached  at  5338  S.  Harper,  #iN,  Chicago 
60615;  rcollin@midway.uchicago.edu. 

Erbin  Crowell  works  for  Equal  Exchange, 
a  fair-trade  organization  and  worker-owned 
cooperative  that  supplies  coffee  to  cafes  and 
markets,  including  Brown's  Blue  Room. 


,. 


THE    NEWS 


Hot  Suds:  People  magazine  named  Rhonda 
Ross  '93  one  of  TV's  40  Most  Fascinating 
People.  Ross,  the  daughter  of  singer  Diana 
Ross,  landed  the  role  of  police  officer  Toni 
Burrell  on  Another  World  last  March,  and 
by  the  summer  she  "was  the  focus  of  the 
soap's  hottest  story  line." 


Michael  Glascott  is  living  with  Scott 
Camp  and  can  be  reached  at  2244  W.  Palmer, 
Chicago  60647. 

Steve  Huston  writes:  "This  past  summer 
was  an  eventful  one.  I  graduated  from  Prince- 
ton Theological  Seminary  (M.Div.).  then  I  got 
married  in  June  to  Heather  Brown  (Williams 
'93).  Finally,  I  started  working  at  Abington 
Memorial  Hospital  as  a  chaplain  resident." 
Steve  plans  to  be  at  the  hospital  for  a  year, 
while  simultaneously  completing  the  ordina- 
tion process  for  the  Presbyterian  Church 
(USA).  Steve  can  be  reached  at  1157  OldYork 
Rd.,  #33,  Abington,  Pa.  19001. 

Elise  Joffe  and  Alexandra  Posen  '95 
attended  Ecole  Jacques  Lecoq  in  Paris  after 
graduating  from  Brown. They  have  since 
formed  a  mask-dance-theater  company  111 
New  York  called  Atlas  Mason. The  group  has 
been  creating  and  performing  for  the  past 
year  in  New  York  and  Toronto.  Their  current 
piece.  Homunculus  Project,  is  playing  111  New 
York  in  November  at  Theater  for  a  New  City. 
Elise  can  be  reached  at  380  E.  10th  St.,  #3A, 
New  York  City  10009;  (212)  979-1239. 

Phyllidia  Ku   97  M.D.  and  Bill  Ruth 
'97  M.D.  (Villanova  '<SS)  were  to  be  married 
in  1  )ecember.They  are  living  in  Portland, 
Maine,  where  Phyllidia  is  in  the  first  year  of 
her  internal-medicine  residency  and  Bill  is  in 
the  first  year  of  his  emergency-medicine  resi- 
dency. They  would  love  to  hear  from  friends 
at  276  Br.u  kett  St.,  #4,  Portland  04102; 
kuph\  1(5  mail  nunc.org. 


Greg  Rhodes  married  Pang  Yang  in 
April  1994.  Greg  teaches  high  school  math 
and  coaches  boys'  and  girls'  water  polo.  He 
started  an  electronic  journal  for  math  teachers 
called  the  M@th  Projects  Journal 
(http://www.mathprojects.com). "I'll  soon  be 
going  back  for  master's  in  educational  tech- 
nology," Greg  writes.  Pang  is  going  to  Fuller 
Theological  Seminary  for  her  master's  111 
Christian  counseling.  Pang  and  Greg  can  be 
reached  at  1345  Cabrillo  Park,  #Q2,  Santa 
Ana,  Calif.  92701;  grhodes@ix.netcom.com. 

Rob  Rosenthal  writes:  "After  jaunts  in 
the  insurance,  feature-film,  and  aerospace 
industries,  I've  come  back  to  Boston  for  my 
M.B.A.  Give  me  a  call  if  you're  in  the  area." 
Rob  can  be  reached  at  P.O.  Box  511,  Babson 
College,  Babson  Park,  Mass.  02157;  (617)  239_ 
7075;  rrosenthal@babson.edu. 

Kathy  Silverton  and  John  Lucas  were 
married  on  Aug.  9  in  San  Francisco.  Many 
Brown  alums  were  able  to  join  them,  includ- 
ing bridesmaid  Susana  Baptista.  Kathy  and 
John  are  having  a  great  time  in  San  Francisco, 
despite  having  to  wake  up  at  4  a.m.  every  day 
for  the  East  Coast  market  hours.  Friends  can 
reach  them  at  3425  Scott  Street,  #1,  San  Fran- 
cisco 94123;  ksilverton@aol.com. 

Susan  Smith  and  Ryan  Walsh  were 
married  on  Aug.  14  in  Susan's  hometown  of 
Waterford,  Ireland. The  wedding  party  included 
classmates  Kathy  Sullivan. James  Slavet, 
and  Chad  Givens.  Several  other  alumni 
attended  the  ceremony,  including  Ryan's  par- 
ents, Terry  and  Pat  Walker  Walsh  '65,  and 
his  grandmother,  Elisabeth  Connie  Dowd 
'31.  Ryan  is  in  his  second  year  of  law  school 
at  the  University  of  Georgia.  Susan  finished 
seventh  in  the  400-meter  hurdles  final  at  the 
World  Championships  in  Athens.  Greece,  on 
Aug.  8.  She  is  currently  ranked  second  111 
Europe  and  ninth  in  the  world. The  couple 
lives  in  Athens.  Ga.  (Their  classmate  Eileen 
Rocchio.  eileen.rocchio@us.coopers.com. 
sent  in  this  note.) 

Lauren  Strachan  writes:  "Once  again  I  am 
living  behind  the  Zion  Curtain,  employed  as  a 
workshop  coordinator  for  the  Natural  History 
of  Genes  (http://raven.un111h.11tah.edu),  a  sci- 
ence education  project  housed  in  the  Utah 
Museum  of  Natural  History.  My  job  involves 
organizing,  producing,  and  teaching  profes- 
sional-development workshops  for  teachers 
on  problem-based  learning  techniques  for 
genetic  science.  After  four  years  on  the  East 
Coast  and  three  on  the  West  Coast  (for  grad 
school),  I  am  glad  to  be  back  111  the  land  of 
rose-colored  glasses.  Please  send  e-mail  or 
check  out  our  Web  site;  I'd  love  to  hear  from 
anyone  at  strachan(§  raven.umnh.utah.edu." 

Daryl  Twitchell  graduated  from  the  Yale 
School  of  Management  in  May  and  is  work- 
ing as  .1  senior  manager  at  American  Express's 
strategic-planning  and  business-development 
group.  Daryl  can  be  reached  at  171  E.  89th  St.. 
#4A,  New  York  City  10028;  daryl.twitchell@ 
aexp.com. 


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i994 


Brian  Bernhardt  writes:  "I  finally  graduated 
from  Michigan  law  school  in  May  and,  after 
studying  for  the  bar,  went  to  Israel  and  Egypt 
for  a  month,  returning  m  time  to  go  to  Miami 
over  Labor  Day  for  Ari  Glazer's  wedding. 
Three  days  in  Miami  with  Kevin  Reed.  Guy 
Foulks.  Landy  Cook,  Alan  Shusterman, 
Matt  Carvalho.  and  James  Kim  '95  was  a 
good  way  to  start  the  rest  of  my  life.  I'm  now 
working  for  a  law  firm  in  Atlanta,  flying  to 
Detroit  once  a  month  to  visit  my  girlfriend 
(and  go  to  Michigan  football  games),  and 
generally  having  a  good  time."  Brian  can  be 
reached  at  3655  Habersham  Rd.  N.,  #243, 
Atlanta  30305;  (404)  816-0844;  bcbernhardt@ 
sablaw.com. 

Jordan  Copeland  and  Lisa  Wolfson 
were  married  Aug.  3  in  Tarrytown,  N.Y. 
Andy  Abramowitz  '92  and  Leslie  Stern  '93 
were  members  ot  the  wedding  party,  and  many 
alumni  attended  the  ceremony. The  couple 
honeymooned  in  Norway,  Denmark,  and 
Sweden.  Jordan  is  attending  NYU  Law  School, 
and  Lisa  is  a  third-grade  teacher  at  P.S.  15S  in 
Manhattan. They  can  be  reached  at  jordanc@ 
way.com  and  hsa@way.com. 

Geoffrey  Donoho  married  Linda  Tuch 
'93  on  Aug.  3  in  Wilmington,  Del. The  groom's 
brother,  Christopher  Donoho  III  '91,  was 
best  man.  The  bride's  father  is  Arthur  F. 
Tuch  '61,  and  the  parents  of  the  groom  are 
Christopher  '65  and  Joan  Hayes  Donoho 
"65.  Barbara  E.Angus  '93  and  Judy  R. 
Marblestone  '93  served  as  bridesmaids,  and 
Darrin  M.  Bradley.  Douglas  K.  Stewart. 
and  Atul  M.  Vaidya  were  groomsmen.  Many 
alumni  attended  the  ceremony.  The  evening 
ended  with  a  medley  ot  Brown  songs  sung  by 
a  large  group,  mostly  on-key.  Geoff  and  Linda 
can  be  reached  at  230  Bala  Ave.,  Bala-Cynwyd, 
Pa.  19004.  (Geoff's  father,  Christopher  '65, 
sent  in  this  note.) 

Daniel  Goldblatt  and  Tracy  Gillings 
'96  were  married  June  30,  1996.  and  Tracy 
gave  birth  to  a  daughter, Johanna  Rebecca, 
July  1,  1997.  Dan  is  working  as  a  director  of 
personnel  and  administration  atTrucolor  Inc., 
and  Tracy  is  working  on  her  master's  in  edu- 
cation.They  can  be  reached  at  5N  Brookside 
Dr.  E.,  Harnman,  N.Y.  10926. 

Jeannine  M.  Lewis  married  Leon  F. 
Wyszkowski  on  July  12. The  couple  got  en- 
gaged on  the  steps  of  Manning  Chapel.  Melissa 
Blanco-Borelli  served  as  bridesmaid  and  Jae 
Shin  as  best  man.  Jeannine  and  Leon  can  be 
reached  at  29  Black  Point  Rd..  Niantic,  Conn. 
06357. 

Nicholas  Miliaras  has  started  a  Ph.D.  pro- 
gram in  biology  at  Johns  Hopkins  and  can  be 
reached  at  15  West  29th  St.,  #2A.  Baltimore  21218; 
(410)  366-9621;  nbmi@jhuvms.hcfjhu.edu. 

Rebekah  McKinney  writes:  "I  recently 
moved  within  Boston,  where  I  have  lived  for 
three  years.  After  graduation  I  worked  for  a 
vear  as  director  of  a  small  start-up  community 
organization  in  Roxbury  and  as  a  part-time 
line  cook  in  a  tine  restaurant.  For  just  under 


two  years  now,  I  have  been  assistant  director 
of  development  at  Greater  Boston  Legal  Ser- 
vices. I  see  Erin  McCloskey  (back  from 
Costa  Rica  and  Spam),  Mike  Nathanson, 
Garth  Shaneyfelt,  and  Jamie  Biggar  '93, 
and  I  would  like  to  hear  from  other  friends  at 
my  new  address:  473  Mass.  Ave.,  #5,  Boston 
02 1 1 8;  mckinney@gbls.org." 

Jessica  Stevens  and  Stephen  Pollard 
were  married  on  June  15  at  the  Grounds  for 
Sculpture  in  Princeton.  N.J.  "The  wedding 
occurred  in  a  beautiful  outdoor  garden  com- 
plete with  blooming  rose  bushes  and  clear,  sunny 
skies,"  Stephen  writes. The  wedding  party 
included  Julie  Saffer  '94,  Spencer  Freedman 
'94,  and  Christian  Mangin.  Karen  Grace  '94, 
Emily  Whitcomb  '94,  Matt  Steele  '94,  and 
Rob  Sambursky  '94  served  as  ushers.  Stephen 
and  Jessica  can  be  reached  at  135  Charles  St., 
#2F,  Boston  02114;  polla@sapient.com. 

Christine  Reins  received  a  master's 
degree  in  architecture  in  December  from  the 
University  of  Michigan.  She  can  be  reached  at 
816  Hill  St.,  #2,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.  4S104; 
creins@umich.edu. 

Robyn  Remeika  married  Abdehllah 
"Tipo"  Lechheb  of  Rabat,  Morocco,  on  Dec. 
7,  1996,  in  a  small,  private  ceremony  in  Wuts- 
tield.Vt.They  met  in  August  1994  in  Morocco, 
where  they  worked  at  the  Rabat  American 
School.  They  are  now  living  in  Washington, 
DC,  where  Robyn  is  doing  a  practicum  at 
AMIDEAST  (America-Mideast  Educational 
and  Training  Services  Inc.).  She  is  working 
toward  her  master's  in  international  and  inter- 
cultural  management  from  the  School  of 
International  Training.  Robyn  and  Tipo  even- 
tually plan  to  move  back  to  Morocco,  but  in 
the  meantime  they  would  love  to  hear  from 
friends  at  1630  R  St.,  NW, Washington,  DC. 
20009;  rremeika@anudeast.org. 

Wade  B.  Santon,  a  second  lieutenant  111 
the  U.S.  Marines,  reported  for  duty  with  the 
1st  Radio  Battalion.  1st  Marine  Expeditionary 
Force,  Marine  Corps  Air  Station,  Kaneohe 
Bay,  Hawaii.  Wade  joined  the  Marine  Corps 
in  June  1994. 

Alexander  Scribner  works  for  Monarch 
Financial  Corporation  of  America  as  a  senior 
investment  executive.  "I  have  been  living  in 
New  York  City  since  graduating,  and  I  love 
it,"  he  writes.  Alexander  has  been  in  touch 
with  fellow  New  Yorkers  Jeanne  Chuang 
'96,  Sigrid  Hahn.  Amy  Flynn.  Ted  Saha. 
Daniel  Cruise,  Caroline  Cruise  '97,  Allison 
Engel  '96,  Hamed  Moghadan,  and  Christ- 
ian Michael  Soussan  '95.  Alexander  would 
be  happy  to  hear  from  any  Brown  grads  in  the 
Manhattan  area, "especially  if  you're  into  the 
NYC  music  scene."  He  can  be  reached  at 
work:  (800)  635  7122;  scrib4lex@a0l.com. 

Gail  Shina  and  Michael  Browne  were 
married  on  June  22.  Gail  is  working  as  a  soft- 
ware engineer,  and  Mike  is  practicing  and 
teaching  wooden  boat-buildmg.They  are  liv- 
ing in  Amesbury,  Mass.,  where  they've  bought 
a  house  and  welcome  visits  from  friends.  They 
can  be  reached  at  (978)  388-1263. 

Britt  H.Tonnessen  writes:"!  am  more 


than  halfway  through  medical  school  at  the 
Mayo  Clinic  in  Rochester,  Minn.  Although  I 
have  taken  up  community  soccer  and  karaoke, 
I  still  find  time  to  row  once  in  a  while.  Long- 
lost  friends  can  reach  me  at  (507)  289-7123; 
tonnessen.britt@mayo.edu." 


l995 


Jonathan  Beck  writes:  "In  June  1996.  my 
college  roommate  Matthew  Szenher  and  his 
sweetheart,  Lucy  Raimes,  set  me  up  on  a 

date  with  Rachel  Escobar.  On  August  24,  we 
got  married.  Regards  and  a  hearty  thank-you 
from  Rachel  and  me  to  all  who  came  to  the 
wedding.  We  can  be  reached  at  (718)  268- 
395  2;  jbeck@bear.com." 

Emily  Biss  moved  to  California  in  March 
to  work  for  Lockheed  Martin  Missiles  and 
Space  as  a  systems  engineer  in  its  commercial 
satellite  organization.  Emily  writes: "I  recently 
finished  a  stint  in  mission  control  as  the  oper- 
ator for  a  GE  telecommunications  satellite 
(which  means,  effectively,  that  I  got  to  fly  the 
thing).  When  I'm  not  flying  satellites,  I'm  fly- 
ing planes  and  playing  lots  of  Frisbee."  Emily 
spends  time  with  Kathy  Hannon  '94  and  her 
new  husband;  Anna  von  Mertens;  Emily 
Borod;  and  Meg  Wiley  '96.  She  has  also 
been  visited  by  Chad  Cianfrani,  Kate  Mag- 


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nuson.  Alisa  Algava  '96,  and  Kent  Ibsen, 

jnd  shares  a  house  with  Jonah  Schachner. 
Emily  can  be  reached  at  P.O.  Box  30,  Moffett 
Field,  Calif.  94035,  (650)  326-731S; 
biss@ix.netcom.com. 

Stuart  Finlayson  died  while  hiking  in 
Mt.  Cook  National  Park,  New  Zealand,  not 
on  Mt.  Hood,  as  reported  in  an  obituary  in 
the  November/December  BAM. 

Tala  Hadid  writes: "I've  been  living  in 
London  since  January,  working  as  an  assistant 
to  a  film  director.  We  will  be  off  to  Paris  in 
November  and  then  to  Russia  to  shoot  the 
next  film.  Hard  has  been  the  path,  but  oh  so 
exciting!  1  leave  my  e-mail  address,  as  I  tend 
to  live  like  a  gypsy."Tala  can  be  reached  at 
ttala  1  @compuserve.com. 

Michael  Kaplan  has  joined  RRE  Investors 
as  an  associate.  He  can  be  reached  at  126  E. 
56th  St.,  New  York  City  10022;  mak@rre.com. 

Laura  Lanzerotti  and  Bianka  Ramirez 
'97  are  two  of  forty-eight  participants  selected 
for  the  Coro  Fellows  Program  in  public  affairs, 
an  intensive  nine-month  graduate-level  fel- 
lowship. Laura  and  Bianka  will  complete  the 
Coro  Fellows  program  in  San  Francisco. 

Prentice  M.  McCullough,  a  U.S.  Navy 
ensign,  completed  the  officer  indoctrination 
course  at  the  Naval  Education  and  Training 
Center  in  Newport,  R.I. 

James  J.  Na  wrote  to  correct  some  infor- 
mation that  appeared  111  the  September/Octo- 
ber BAM.  In  James's  wedding  to  Kimberly 
P.  Brown  '96,  his  best  man  was  J.  David 
Elliott  '94,  not  Steven  A.  Moya  '94.  (Steven 
was  a  groomsman.)  Also,  while  Kevin  Bau 
was  present  at  the  wedding,  he  was  not  a 
groomsman. 

Jeffrey  Vargas  left  the  mayor's  office  in 
Providence  in  May  and  moved  back  to  New 
York  City  to  pursue  a  cyber-career  in  the 
marketing  department  of  Ovid  Technologies 
Inc.,  an  information-technology  company. 
"I've  seen  a  lot  of  alums  in  the  city  over  the 
last  few  months,"  Jeffrey  writes, "including 
Nelson  Hernandez  '94  and  his  wife,  Shareen 
Joseph-Hernandez  '9j;Elee  Muslin  '93; 
Kenneth  Padilla  \i2;Jose  R.  Polanco  '92; 
and  former  Perkins  resident  Sharmila  Rao  " 
Jeffrey  can  be  reached  atjvargas@ovid.com. 

Jason  A.  Wall  is  a  graduate  student  in 
economics  at  Pembroke  College,  Cambridge 
University.  Jason  writes:  "I  look  forward  to 
hearing  from  any  Brunonians  in  England  as 
well  as  Brown  friends  that  I  have  lost  contact 
with,  including  Dushana  Yoganathan  '93 
and  Amity  Buck.  Recently  I  was  in  Boston, 
where  I  saw  Nathan  Walsh,  who  is  working 
on  a  Ph.D.  in  biochemistry  at  MIT.  He  is 
doing  well,  as  is  Rahul  Tongia,  who  is  work- 
ing on  his  Ph.D.  at  <  .11  negie  Mellon." Jason 
can  be  reached  at  jaw3i@ec0n.cam.ac.uk. 

Crystal  L.  Younger  reports  that  after  two 
years  of  being  employed  bv  U.S.  Rep.  Don, ikl 

M.  Payne  as  a  special  assistant,  she  is  now  a  loan 
■  iih  I  leet  Mortgage  Corp.  She  would 
love  to  hear  from  alums  at  2sV.m  Velsor  PI., 
U  1 1 ),  Newark.  N.J.  071 12;  clyoungcW  aol.com. 


1996 


Anthony  Alexander  is  a  master's  candidate 
in  chemical  engineering  at  the  University  of 
Iowa.  He  can  be  reached  at  alexande@icaen. 
uiowa.edu;  1000  W.  Benton  St.,  #I03E,  Iowa 
City,  Iowa  52246. 

Elizabeth  Hunt  is  entering  her  second 
year  as  a  Peace  Corps  volunteer  in  Ecuador. 
"Life  is  good  down  here  working  in  rural 
public  health,"  Elizabeth  writes.  She  can  be 
reached  c/o  Peace  Corps,  Casilla  13-01-227, 
Portoviejo,  Manabi,  Ecuador. 

Curtis  Krause  is  working  as  a  con- 
sultant in  Moscow.  Curtis  can  be  reached  at 
curtis_krause@hotmail.com. 

Kristen  J.  Lonergan  writes:  "I've  begun 
law  school  at  NYU  and  am  loving  it  -  both 
the  city  and  the  school.  Ironically,  there  are 
two  other  people  in  my  law  school  section 
who  also  lived  in  Perkins  our  freshman  year." 
Kristen  can  be  reached  at  110  W.  3rd  St.,  #1201, 
New  York  City  10012;  kjl210@is7.nyu.edu. 

John  C.  Lund  is  the  morning  talent  and 
production  director  at  WTGZ, The  Tiger,  95.9 
Auburn  and  104.9  Montgomery.  He  can  be 
reached  at  507  W.  Glenn,  #50,  Auburn,  Ala. 
36830;  (334)  502-8401;  bigjcl@mindspring.com. 

Costa  Migadakis  is  serving  the  thir- 
teenth of  twenty-three  months  of  service  in 
the  Greek  military  as  a  reserve  officer  (cadet) 
in  the  translation  department  at  army  head- 
quarters in  Athens.  He  will  be  returning  to 
New  York  this  August.  Costa  can  be  reached 
at  22D  Kleitou  St.,  Ilissia  1S771,  Athens, 
Greece;  costasm@athina.edu.uch.gr. 

Deborah  Phillips  is  engaged  to  Brian 
Ruetter,  a  ranger  with  the  National  Park  Ser- 
vice. Deborah  is  in  her  first  year  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania's  veterinary  school  and 
can  be  reached  at  dphillip@dolph111.upenn.edu. 

1  man  M. Tyson  is  working  for  Ford 
Motor  Co.  as  a  product  engineer  in  the 
advanced  vehicle  technology  division. "In 
short,  I'm  having  fun,  enjoying  life,  and  loving 
the  job,"  Iman  writes.  He'd  like  to  stay  in 
touch  with  friends  and  can  be  reached  at  4958 
Heather  Dr.,  #210,  Dearborn,  Mich.  48126; 
ityson@gw.ford.com. 

Phebe  Vandersip  (see  Hank  Vandersip 
'56). 

David  Wadler  is  working  for  Computer 
Associates  in  Paris.  He  can  be  reached  at  50 
Ave.  de  Wagram,  4e  etage,  75017  Paris,  France; 
(33-1)  42-27-27-64;  nwadler@juno.com. 


chapter.  Jennifer  would  love  to  hear  from  old 
friends.  She  can  be  reached  at  839  Scaleybark 
Rd„  #2H,  Charlotte  28209. 


1997 


Jennifer  Cook  works  as  a  domestic-violence 
counselor  for  the  sheriff's  department  111 
Charlotte,  NO  She  offers  support  and  guid- 
ance to  victims  and  their  children,  educates 
and  advises  police  officers  throughout  the 
county,  and  is  developing  awareness  campaigns 
at  several  universities.  Since  moving  to  North 
Carolina,  she  has  been  interviewing  prospec- 
tive Brown  students  and  has  gotten  involved 
in  Charlotte's  Kappa  Alpha  I  beta  alumnae 


Not  Just  Boy  Toys:  An  Associated  Press 
story  on  women  in  computer  science  quoted 
Valerie  Green  '97,  a  master's  candidate  in 
computer  science  at  Brown.  Green  warned: 
"Computers  can  become  boys'  territory  as 
early  as  elementary  school.  If  teachers 
don't  schedule  times  for  individual  study, 
the  boys  tend  to  take  over." 


Holly  Clara  Eggert  (see  Arnold 
Eggert  '41). 

Gina  Fusaro  is  in  her  first  year  of  a  grad- 
uate pathology  program  at  Columbia.  She 
would  love  to  hear  from  friends  at  100  Haven 
Ave.,  #i8E,  New  York  City  10032;  (212)  781- 
5488;  gf89@columbia.edu. 

Robert  Meguid  is  living  in  Cairo, 
Egypt,  where  he  is  studying  Arabic.  He  plans 
to  return  to  Brown  next  year  to  begin  a  mas- 
ter's in  medical  science,  after  which  he  will 
start  medical  school  at  Brown.  He  can  be 
reached  at  robmeguid@rocketmail.com. 

Tonya  McMillion  moved  to  Los  Angeles 
and  would  love  to  hear  from  friends  at 
tonyam@fox.com. 

Shintaro  Okamoto  married  Sophia 
SeapingTzeng  (Harvard  '95)  on  June  28  at  St. 
Elizabeth  Ann  Seton  Catholic  Church  in 
Anchorage.  Alaska.  Sophia  attends  Columbia 
Law  School,  and  Shintaro  is  a  visual  artist. 
Takehiro  Hira  served  as  best  man  in  the 
wedding.  Shintaro  and  Sophia  live  in  New 
York  City. 

Bianka  Ramirez  (see  Laura  Lanzerotti 

'95). 

Sharon  Su  is  working  as  a  research  asso- 
ciate at  Genetics  Institute  in  Cambridge,  Mass. 
She'd  love  to  have  visitors  and  can  be  reached 
at  15  Piggott  Rd.,  #4,  Medford,  Mass.  02155; 
ssu@genetics.com. 


GS 


Simon  Ostrach  '49  Sc.M.,  '50  Ph.D.,  a  pro- 
fessor at  Case  Western  Reserve  University,  was 
awarded  a  five-year,  $17.8  million  grant  from 
the  NASA  Lewis  Research  Center  to  create 
the  new  National  Center  for  Microgravity 
Research  of  Fluids  and  Combustion.  Simon 
was  named  director  of  the  new  center,  which 
is  the  first  national  institution  dedicated  to 
microgravity  research. 

Eric  Marder  'so  A.M.  has  published  The 
Laws  of  Choke:  Predicting  Customer  Behavior. 

Steven  C.  Batterman  '64  Ph.D.  (see  '61). 

Daniel  R.  Schwarz  '65  A.M.,  '68  Ph.D. 
has  published  Reconfiguring  Modernism: Explo- 


76    •    JAN  I  Alt',      I   I    BR  1    A  IM      [998 


rations  in  the  Relationship  Between  Modern  Art 
and  Modern  Literature  (St.  Martin's).  Daniel  is  a 
professor  of  English  at  Cornell  and  can  he 
reached  at  drs6@cornell.edu. 

David  L.  Griscom  '66  Ph.D., Alexan- 
dria,Va.,  a  research  physicist  at  the  Naval 
Research  Laboratory's  optical  sciences  divi- 
sion, is  the  1997  winner  of  the  NRL  Sigma 
Xi's  Pure  Science  Award. 

Raul  Rojas-Lamperein  '67  Sc.M.  is 
working  in  Chile  for  Jaakko  Poyry,  an  engineer- 
ing firm.  He  is  married,  the  father  of  four 
sons,  and  the  grandfather  ot  three  boys.  Raul 
would  like  to  get  news  from  old  classmates 
and  friends.  He  can  be  reached  at  Candelaria 
Goyenechea  4i8i,Vitacura,  Santiago,  Chile. 

Cynthia  (Penny)  Tabit  Hahn  '71  Ph.D., 
Berkley,  Mass.,  was  appointed  associate  acade- 
mic dean  at  Bristol  Community  College  in 
Fall  River,  Mass.  Cynthia  had  served  as  acting 
assistant  to  the  academic  dean  since  January 
1996. 

Sally  E  Padden  '71  M.A.T.  was 
appointed  the  first  justice  of  the  Essex  division 
of  the  Juvenile  Court  Department  of  Massa- 
chusetts. Sally  has  been  an  associate  justice 
since  1995.  Prior  to  her  judicial  appointment, 
she  served  as  an  assistant  district  attorney  in 
the  Essex  County  District  Attorney's  office 
from  1982  to  1995.  Sally  lives  in  Manchester, 
Mass.,  with  her  husband  and  three  sons. 

Vikram  K.  Kinra  '72  Ph.D.,  a  professor 
of  aerospace  engineering  at  Texas  A6VM  Uni- 
versity, received  the  Lockheed  Martin  Tactical 
Aircraft  Systems  Excellence  in  Teaching  Award. 

Gerald  Eggert  '73  Ph.D.  (see  Arnold 
Eggert  '41). 

James  S.  Corum  '76  A.M.  published 
77k-  Luftwaffe  (University  Press  of  Kansas),  an 
account  of  the  evolution  of  German  military 
aviation  theory,  doctrine,  war  games,  and 
operations  between  the  two  world  wars.  James 
is  a  professor  of  comparative  military  studies 
at  the  School  of  Advanced  Airpower  Studies 
at  Maxwell  Air  Force  Base  in  Alabama. 

David  Watters  '79  Ph.D..  professor  of 
English  at  the  University  of  New  Hampshire, 
was  named  to  the  James  H.  Hayes  and  Claire 
Short  Hayes  Chair  in  the  Humanities.  David 
has  been  at  UNH  for  eighteen  years  and  is  a 
noted  scholar  of  New  Hampshire  culture  and 
history.  He  was  named  New  Hampshire  pro- 
fessor of  the  year  in  1990  by  the  Council  for 
Advancement  and  Support  of  Education. 

Anna  Bobiak  Nagurney  '80  Sc.M.,  '83 
Ph.D.  (see  '76). 

Alice  Goldberg  Lemos  Si  Ph.D.  has 
been  made  a  vice  chairman  in  the  Republi- 
can Party  of  Queens  County,  New  York.  She 
also  has  purchased  an  apartment  for  herself 
and  her  son,  Jesse,  who  is  attending  kinder- 
garten. "There  is  life  when  you  are  forced  to 
give  up  teaching! "Alice  writes. 

Elizabeth  Reis  '82  A.M.  published 
Damned  Women:  Sinners  and  Witches  in  Puritan 
New  England  (Cornell  University  Press). The 
book  explores  the  intersection  of  Puritan 
theology,  Puritan  evaluations  of  womanhood, 
and  the  Salem  witchcraft  trials.  Elizabeth 


teaches  history  and  women's  studies  at  the 
University  of  Oregon. 

Geoffrey  A.  Landis  '84  Sc.M.,  '88  Ph.D. 
writes:  "While  other  scientists  on  the  Mars 
Pathfinder  project  are  interested  in  the  rocks  and 
soil,  I  am  focused  on  slightly  smaller  particles: 
the  Martian  dust,  and  the  effect  of  the  dust  on 
the  performance  of  solar  arrays  on  Mars.  Path- 
finder is  the  first  solar-powered  spacecraft  to 
visit  the  surface  of  Mars,  and  monitoring  the 
performance  of  its  solar  arrays  is  an  important 
building  block  toward  more  ambitious  mis- 
sions to  Mars."  The  postage-stamp-sized  exper- 
iment Geoffrey  designed  measures  how  much 
dust  deposits  on  the  solar  array  of  the  Sojourner 
rover.  Geoffrey  can  be  reached  at  geoffrey.a. 
landis@lerc.nasa.gov.His  Web  site  is  http:// 
www.stf.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/. 

Nancy  Nenno  '87  Ph.D.  (see  Claudia 
Nenno  Trombly  '88). 

Lowell  Bowditch  '89  A.M.,  '92  Ph.D. 
(see  Gordon  Sayre  '88). 

William  N.Tilchin  '92  Ph.D.  published 
Theodore  Roosevelt  and  the  British  Empire: 
A  Study  in  Presidential  Statecraft  (St.  Martins). 
William  is  an  assistant  professor  of  social 
science  in  the  College  of  General  Studies  at 
Boston  University  In  addition  to  this  book, 
he  is  the  author  of  numerous  published  essays 
on  the  foreign  policy  of  Theodore  Roosevelt 
and  related  topics.  William  is  married  with 
two  children  and  lives  in  Pawtucket,  R.I. 

Edwidge  Danticat  '93  M.F.A.  (see 
Andrea  Estepa  '80). 


IN   THE   NEWS 

Silver  Lining:  Scranton  (Pa.)  Times  colum- 
nist Ken  Stammen  devoted  his  September 
28  column  to  Joel  Naroff  72  A.M.,  '75 
Ph.D.,  a  Philadelphia-based  economist  and 
bank  vice  president  considered  to  be  a 
"sought-after  expert."  Naroff  visited  Scran- 
ton to  share  his  views  on  the  future  of  the 
national  and  local  economies.  He  said 
Scranton's  "relatively  high  unemployment 
creates  an  opportunity  [to]  sell  the  labor 
force"  by  attracting  companies  and  jobs. 


Tuija  Rankama  '96  Ph.D.  and  Jarmo 
Kankaanpaa  '96  Ph.D.  married  in  August 
after  returning  home  to  Finland  in  June. 
Since  graduation  they  have  been  employed  in 
various  short-term  positions;  among  other 
things, Tuija  was  a  professor  of  archaeology  at 
the  University  of  Helsinki  for  three  months. 
Jarmo  has  completed  several  translation  jobs 
and  is  doing  CRM-project  work  for  the 
National  Board  of  Antiquities.  They  would 
like  to  get  in  touch  with  Kimmo  Tammela 
'92  and  other  Brown  alumni/alumnae  in  Fin- 
land, perhaps  to  form  a  Finnish  Brown  Club. 


They  can  be  reached  at  Kimmeltie  26  C  27, 
FIN-02110  Espoo.  Finland;  09-455  0026; 
tuija.rankama@helsinki.fi;  or  jarmo.kankaan 
paa@nba.fi. 


MD 


Alan  Cole  '76  (see  Harriet  Hanzel  Cole 
'72). 

Eli  Avila  '86  (see  Tom  Kong  '81). 

Steve  Torms  '89  (see  '86). 

Debbie  Benoit  Harris  '90  (see  Claudia 
Nenno  Trombly  '88). 

Victor  Caraballo  '91  (see  Jennifer 
Lumelleau  Caraballo  '90). 

Claudia  Nenno  Trombly  '92  (see  '88). 

Stina  Wedlock  '93  (see  Eldon  D.  Wed- 
lock Jr.  '64). 

Jay  Zaslow  '93  MD.  (see  Samantha 
Rai  '91). 

Gregson  Pigott  '94  (see  '90). 

Phyllidia  Ku  '97  (see  '93). 

Bill  Ruth  '97  (see  Phyllidia  Ku  '93) 


Obituaries 


Marguerite  Mathews    15  A.M.,  Providence: 
Aug.  19.  A  former  teacher  at  Central  High 
School  in  Providence,  she  was  the  oldest  mem- 
ber of  Central  Congregational  Church.  She  is 
survived  by  a  niece  and  two  nephews. 

Agnes  A.  Davitt  '21.  West  Chester.  Pa.;  Aug. 
1.  She  was  a  retired  librarian  for  the  Newark, 
N.J.,  public  schools. 

James  K.  Yager  '22,  Oneonta,  N.Y;  1986. 

Myrtle  Hodgkins  Coe  '24,  Bloommgton, 
Minn.;  Sept.  27.  She  trained  in  the  Army  School 
of  Nursing  in  Washington,  DC,  and  in  1932 
became  an  instructor  in  physiology  at  the 
University  of  Minnesota  Nursing  School.  The 
author  of  three  textbooks,  she  was  believed  to 
be  the  first  instructor  of  bedside  nursing  in 
the  United  States.  During  World  War  II,  she 
taught  basic  sciences  to  nurses  in  Minneapolis 
hospitals.  She  was  president  of  the  Minnesota 
Nursing  Association  from  1948  to  1952  and  the 
first  vice  president  of  the  American  Nurses 
Association.  She  is  survived  by  her  husband, 
John  Coe,  8106  Highwood  Dr.,  #Y204, 
Bloomington  55438;  and  a  nephew, Joseph  B. 
Munro  Jr.  '52. 

Gustave  Freeman  '29,  Palo  Alto,  Calif;  Sept. 
16.  A  pathologist  and  former  director  of  the 
department  of  medical  sciences  at  Stanford 
Research  Institute  International,  he  used  animals 
to  show  how  chronic  exposure  to  low  levels 
of  air  pollutants  can  harm  the  lungs.  He  was  .1 
consultant  with  the  Environmental  Protection 
Agency,  which  used  his  research  to  set  air  pol- 
lution standards.  He  taught  at  Yale,  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  and  the  California  Institute  of 


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Technology  and  was  a  researcher  at  the  Army 
Chemical  Center  in  Washington  and  the 
National  Cancer  Institute.  He  is  survived  by 
two  sons,  including  Robin  '66;  and  a  daughter. 

Irene  D.  Carlin  "24,  '30  A.M.,  Pawtucket, 
R.I.;  Sept.  20.  She  was  a  librarian  and  English 
teacher  at  Tolman  High  School  in  Pawtucket 
for  torty-five  years  before  retiring  in  1969. 
She  also  taught  at  Cranston  (R.I.)  High  School; 
West  High  School,  Pawtucket;  and  the  Ameri- 
can School  in  Heidelberg,  Germany. 

J.Winford  Nagle  Jr.  '26,  Providence;  Aug.  11. 
He  was  an  export  manager  at  Gorham  Corp. 
before  retiring  in  1972.  He  served  as  class  trea- 
surer and  editor  ot  the  class  newsletter  for  many 
years.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Emily,  15 
Rumstick  Dr.,  Barnngton,  R.I.  02S06;  a  daugh- 
ter, Shirley  Nagle  Holmes  si;  a  son, James 
HI  '54;  and  six  grandchildren,  including  Kristin 
Holmes-Lender  '76,  Holly  E.  Holmes  '77, 
and  Marnie  Holmes  Carmichael  '79. 

Robert  Smith  '27.  Lenox,  Mass.;  Aug.  4. The 
author  of  numerous  books  about  sports, 
including  Baseball,  Heroes  oj  Baseball,  Baseball  in 
America,  and  Babe  Rutli  s  America,  he  was  also  a 
novelist  whose  works  included  Hold  011  the 
Liikc,  The  Human  Image,  and  My  Life  in  the 
North  Ii;>i>i/>.  In  [967  he  collaborated  with 
Matthew  Ridgway  on  the  general's  memoir. 
The  Korean  War.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Jean,  General  Delivery,  Lenox  01240;  two 
daughters;  and  two  sons. 

Gertrude  Rosenhirsch  Zisson  '30,  Narra- 
gansett,  R.I.;  Sept.  10.  She  was  the  retired  vice 
president  of  the  Rosenhirsch  Foundation. 
Survivors  include  two  sons,  Harry  '61  and 
William  '63;  a  grandson.  H.  Alex  '91;  a 
nephew,  James  '74;  and  a  niece,  Gloria 
Rosenhirsch  Wallick  '53. 

Robert  W.Young  '31,  Marietta,  Ga.;  July  31. 

He  was  a  systems  analyst  at  the  Hmdley  Man- 
ufacturing Co.  in  Cumberland,  R.I.,  for  thirty 
years  before  retiring  in  1974.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife.  Roselyn.  S01  Bonnie  Glen  Dr., 
Marietta  30067;  and  four  sons. 

Melvin  M.  Dichter   32,Vero  Beach,  Fla., 
April  30.  He  was  a  retired  lawyer  for  Brennan, 
Dichter  &  Brennan.  A  U.S.  Navy  veteran,  he 
was  ,1  former  Connecticut  state  representative 
and  a  board  member  of  Ring's  End  Inc.  and 
Union  Trust  Co.  Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Sallie, 965  Lantern  Ln.,Vero  Beach  32963. 

Louis  Macktaz  '32,  Lincoln.  R.L;  Sept.  14. 
He  was  a  Woonsocket  Probate  Court  judge 
and  a  founding  partner  of  the  Woonsocket 
law  firm  Macktaz,  Keefer  c\  Kirby.  I  le  was  a 
U.S.Army  veteran  of  World  War  II.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  Ins  wile.  Het to.  19''  did  River  Rd.. 
#314,  Lincoln  02865;  a  son;  and  a  daughter. 

Eleanor  Peabody  Rupprecht  '3  i.  Westerly. 
R.I.;  Aug.  [2. She  was  1  former  Barrington 


schoolteacher.  She  is  survived  by  a  son,  Carl, 
P.O.  Box  1116,  Hope  Valley,  R.I.  02832;  and  a 
daughter. 

Leonard  S.  Taber  '33,  East  Providence.  R.I. ; 
Aug.  27.  He  was  a  retired  electrical  engineer 
for  the  Fall  River  Electric  Co.  He  is  survived 
by  two  sons. 

Mary  Carr  Boylan  '34,  East  Greenwich,  R.I.; 
Aug.  11.  She  was  a  science  teacher  in  North 
Kingstown,  R.I.,  schools  for  twenty  years 
before  retiring  in  1974.  She  was  also  the  founder 
and  operator  ot  the  former  Bayview  Pre-School 
in  East  Greenwich,  the  summer  recreation 
coordinator  of  the  North  Kingstown  School 
Department,  and  a  teacher  with  Head  Start  in 
Providence.  She  is  survived  by  two  sons  and 
tour  daughters,  including  Barbara  A.  Wiechers, 
232  Bayview  Ave.,  East  Greenwich  02818. 

Eugene  W.  Davis  '34, Terrace  Park,  Ohio; 
Aug.  17.  He  was  self-employed  as  a  real  estate 
broker.  Survivors  include  his  wife.  Winifred, 
212  Oxford  Ave. ,  Terrace  Park  45174;  and  two 
daughters. 

Winslow  A.  Robbins  '34,  Houston;  Sept.  7. 
A  U.S.  Marine  Corps  veteran  ofWorldWar  II, 
he  was  a  retired  partner  in  the  Boston  law 
firm  ofWarner  &  Stackpole.  where  he  special- 
ized in  estate  and  trust  law.  He  is  survived  by  a 
son,  Winslow  Robbins  Jr.  '63,758  Elsinore 
Dr.,  Solvang,  Calif.  93463;  and  a  daughter, 
Juliet  Robbins  Lisle  '76. 

Miriam  Hallen  Johnson  '35.  Chatham. 
Mass.;  Aug.  29.  She  is  survived  by  a  son  and 
two  daughters. 

Elmer  Rigelhaupt  '35,  Sarasota.  Fla.;  Sept. 
22.  He  was  an  executive  in  his  family's  retail 
shoe  business  before  retiring  in  1966.  A  U.  S. 
Army  veteran  ofWorld  War  II.  he  taught  Amer- 
ican studies  at  the  Brooks  School  in  Lincoln, 
Mass.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Eleanor 
Scheft  Rigelhaupt  '42,7350  Royal  Birkdale 
Dr.,  Sarasota  34238;  and  two  daughters,  includ- 
ing Barbara  Rigelhaupt  Fetner  '65. 

Harold  F.  Bright  '36,  Davenport,  Iowa;  June 
12.  He  was  vice  president  for  academic  affairs 
at  George  Washington  University.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Frances,  4132  Northwest 
Blvd.,  #102.  Davenport  52806. 

Arthur  I.  Saklad  '37,  Fort  Lauderdale,  Fla.; 
Aug.  26.  He  was  a  retired  executive  vice  presi- 
dent of  Ben  Elfinan  and  Son  Inc.  111  Boston. 
Survivors  include  his  wife,  Evelyn,  4300  N. 
Ocean  Blvd..  Fort  Lauderdale  33308;  a  daugh- 
ter: and  a  cousin.  Sarah  '28. 

Earle  E.TiltonJr.  '38.  Warwick,  R.L;  Sept. 
18.  He  was  a  hydraulic-hose  assembler  at  H.H. 
Watson  Co.  111  Last  Providence  for  ten  years 
before  retiring  111  1986.  He  is  survived  by  two 
sons,  including  Dixon,  281  Wolf  Rock  Rd., 
Exeter.  R.I.  02822. 


Donald  D.  D'Antuono  '39,  North  Smith- 
field,  R.L;  Aug.  31.  He  was  a  district  manager 
of  business  service  for  New  England  Telephone 
tor  forty  years,  retiring  in  1979.  In  World  War 
II,  he  served  with  the  U.S.Army  Signal  Corps. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Anne  Cooney 
D'Antuono  '46,  S09  Pound  Hill  Rd.,  North 
Smithfield  02896;  two  sons,  including  Donald 
'72;  and  two  daughters,  including  Nancy  '71. 

Henry  A.  Klie  '40.  Bloomfield,  N.J.;  Aug.  6. 
He  was  president  of  Henry  Klie  Inc.,  an  insur- 
ance firm  in  Jersey  City,  N.J.,  founded  by  his 
father  in  1910.A  captain  in  the  U.S.Army  Sig- 
nal Corps  during  World  War  II,  he  was  active 
in  civic  affairs  in  Jersey  City.  While  at  Brown, 
he  was  president  of  Delta  Tau  Delta.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Hester,  39  Hyde  Rd.,  Bloom- 
field  07003;  a  brother,  Robert  '44;  three  daugh- 
ters; and  a  son. 

Stewart  B.Ashton  '41,  Greenville,  R.L;  Sept. 
14.  He  was  a  former  president  of  Private  Brand 
Blades  Inc.  in  North  Providence  and  a  general 
manager  of  CI.  Hayes  Inc.  in  Cranston.  He 
was  also  an  engineer  and  project  manager  for 
Eversharp-Schick  in  Connecticut  and  a  tool 
designer  for  the  Taft-Pierce  Co.  in  Providence. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Catherine,  9  Maple- 
crest  Dr.,  Greenville  02S28;  and  a  daughter. 

George  B.  Corcoran  '41.  Suffield,  Conn.; 
Aug.  28.  A  retired  ophthalmologist,  he  was  an 
assistant  clinical  professor  of  ophthalmology  at 
Yale  University;  chief  of  surgery  and  chairman 
of  ophthalmology  at  Mercy  Hospital;  on  the 
staff  at  Wesson  Memorial  Hospital,  Providence 
Hospital,  and  Bay  State  Medical  Center;  and  a 
consultant  in  ophthalmology  for  several  hos- 
pitals. He  was  in  private  practice  in  Spring- 
field. Mass..  at  the  time  of  his  retirement  in 
1987.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Sylvia,  Box 
60S,  Suffield  0607S;  five  daughters;  two  sons; 
two  stepdaughters;  and  two  stepsons. 

Paul  W.  Benson  '42,  Riverside,  R.L;  Sept.  4. 
He  was  the  University  locksmith  at  Brown  for 
forty-five  years  until  retiring  in  1977.  In  World 
War  II.  he  served  in  the  U.S.  Air  Force  and 
participated  in  the  invasions  of  Sicily  and 
Normandy.  He  received  the  Presidential  Unit 
Citation  ribbon  and  the  European-African- 
Middle  Eastern  Theater  ribbon  with  five 
Bronze  Stars.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Char- 
lotte Morse  Benson  '36,  so  Burnside  Ave., 
Riverside  02915;  two  sons,  including  Freder- 
ick '65;  and  four  daughters,  including  Nancy 
Benson  Mari  '71. 

George  P.  Delaney  '43,  Burnllville,  R.L; 
Sept.  28.  A  U.S.  Navy  veteran  ofWorld  War  II, 
he  was  a  traffic  engineer  at  New  England 
Telephone  &  Telegraph,  retiring  in  1982.  He  is 
survived  by  a  son  and  a  daughter. 

Donald  R.  Parker  '44,  Ambergris  Caye, 
Belize;  |ulv  2S.  He  was  an  industrial  engineer 
who  specialized  111  the  manufacture  ot  non- 
woven  fabrics.  After  serving  in  the  U.S.  Navy 


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during  World  War  II,  he  joined  Chicopee 
Manufacturing  Corp.,  a  division  of  Johnson  £V 
Johnson,  in  Bensenville,  111.  He  later  worked 
for  Chicopee  in  Providence  before  moving  to 
Indianapolis  to  join  Commercial  Filters  Corp. 
Prior  to  relocating  to  Belize  in  1996,  he  served 
as  a  consultant  for  the  nonwoven  fabrics  indus- 
try. His  survivors  include  a  daughter, Jarrett 
Parker  Kroll,  333  E.  30th  St.,  New  York,  N.Y. 
10016;  a  son;  and  a  grandson,  Charles  Kroll  '00. 

Rodney  A.  Hanks  '45.  Honolulu,  Hawaii; 
Aug.  24.  He  was  a  retired  manager  ot  tariff 
training  for  Western  Airlines. 

Ralph  C.  Monroe  '45,  Southbridge,  Mass.; 
1996.  A  retired  internist,  he  was  a  veteran  of 
World  War  II.  In  retirement  he  served  as  a 
consultant  in  occupational  medicine  at  Amer- 
ican Optical  Corp.,  medical  director  of 
Mutual  Alliance  Plan,  and  director  ot  medical 
education  at  Harrington  Memorial  Hospital 
in  Southbridge.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Catherine,  35  Pine  Ridge  Rd.,  Southbridge 
01550;  three  sons;  and  a  daughter. 

Walter  J.  Miller  '45.  Bristol,  R.I.;Aug.  30. 
He  was  employed  by  the  former  Fulflex  Inc. 
for  many  years  before  retiring  in  1974.  He  was 
a  U.S.  Army  veteran  ofWorld  War  II.  He  is 
survived  by  a  son  and  two  daughters. 

Robert  H.Wehrman  '4S,  Fountain  Valley, 
Calif.;  May  31.  He  was  a  retired  sales  manager 
at  Industrial  Power  Transmission.  Survivors 
include  his  wife,  Betty.  16755  Silktree  St., 
Fountain  Valley  92708;  a  son,  Robert  Jr.  '69; 
and  a  daughter. 

Joseph  D.  Accardi  '49,  Sarasota,  Fla.;  April 
17.  He  was  a  retired  lawyer.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  6241  Timberlake  Dr.,  #D-2,  Sarasota 
34243- 

Francis  W.  Dana  Jr.  '49,  Huntington,  Conn.; 
July  16.  A  retired  stockbroker  forjanney  Mont- 
gomery Scott  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  he  was 
also  director  of  admissions  at  the  University  of 
Bridgeport;  Bloomfield  College,  Bloomfield, 
N.J.;  Manhattanville  College,  Purchase,  N.Y.; 
and  Hofstra  University,  Hempstead,  N.Y.  He 
served  in  the  U.S.  Air  Force  for  five  years  and 
attained  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Alice  Forstall  Dana  '48, 
23  Ripton  Rd.,  Huntington  06484;  a  daughter; 
and  two  sons. 


Leonard  Seader  '49,  Manchester,  Conn.; 
Aug.  30. A  U.S. Army  veteran  ofWorldWar  II. 
he  served  as  executive  vice  president  of  First 
Hartford  Realty  Corp.  He  was  head  of  the 
Manchester  Board  of  Education  for  twelve 
years  and  a  founder  of  Manchester  Community 
College.  He  also  worked  on  the  presidential 
election  team  of  Robert  Kennedy  and  was 
appointed  to  Lady  Bird  Johnson's  Urban 
Renewal  Task  Force.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Ellen,  114  Richmond  Dr.,  Manchester 
06040;  two  daughters;  and  a  son. 

Edgar  B.  Cutter  '50,  Roanoke, Va.;  Sept.  3. 
He  was  a  retired  urologist.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Patricia  Nutter  Cutter  '52,  3173 
Stonendge  Rd.,  S.W,  Roanoke  24014. 

George  A.  Eckert  Jr.  '50,  Los  Angeles;  May 
10.  A  colonel  in  the  U.S.  Army,  he  was 
awarded  the  Legion  of  Merit  in  1980  after 
thirty-six  years  of  active  and  reserve  service.  A 
stage  director  for  Grand  Concourse  Produc- 
tions in  Beverly  Hills,  California,  he  worked 
on  the  original  productions  of  West  Side  Story 
and  Damn  Yankees,  and  served  as  Gene  Kelly's 
assistant  for  A  Guide  to  (he  Married  Man  and 
Hello,  Dolly! 

C.  Glenn  Flanders  Jr.  '50, Windsor  Locks, 
Conn.;  Aug.  27.  He  operated  the  Brett-Flanders 
Insurance  Agency  for  thirty  years  and  served 
as  chairman  of  the  Windsor  Locks  Board  of 
Education.  He  served  in  the  U.S.  Army  during 
World  War  II.  Survivors  include  his  wife, 
Dorothy,  52  Church  St. .Windsor  Locks  06096; 
three  brothers.  Urban  '49,  Samuel  '50,  and 
John  '53;  a  sister;  three  sons,  mcludingjohn 
'79;  and  a  daughter,  Catherine  '91. 

Wallace  F.  Holbrook  '50, West  Hartford, 
Conn.;  Aug.  4.  A  retired  foreign  service  officer 
for  the  U.S.  Department  of  State,  he  served  111 
Europe,  Asia,  and  Africa,  as  well  as  in  the  United 
States.  After  retiring  from  foreign  service  in 
1982,  he  worked  for  the  Connecticut  Economic 
Development  Department's  international 
division  as  an  export  adviser.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife,  Sonja,  1199  Farmington  Ave.,  West 
Hartford  06107;  and  a  son. 

Howard  G.  Hunt  Jr.  '50,  Chicago;  April  15. 
A  former  manager  at  Paine  Webber  in  New- 
port News.Va.,  he  also  worked  as  a  branch 
manager  at  ICE  Inc.  He  is  survived  by  a  brother, 
Andrew  '51,  8  Cooke  St.,  Providence  02906. 


at  the  Sun  Oil  Co.  for  thirty-three  years.  When 
he  retired  in  1984,  he  was  head  of  the  Gov- 
ernment Liaison  Office.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Pauline,  66  Chestnut  Valley  Dr.,  Doyles- 
town  18901;  a  daughter;  and  three  sons. 

William  F.Viviani  '51  A.M.,  Pawtucket,  R.I.; 
Aug.  20.  He  was  a  professor  of  Spanish  at  Prov- 
idence College  for  twenty-two  years  until 
retiring  in  1978.  A  U.S.  Army  veteran  ofWorld 
War  II,  he  served  in  Europe  with  the  Office 
of  Strategic  Services.  He  is  survived  by  three 
nieces  and  two  nephews. 

Peter  M.  Beattie  "52, Tiverton,  R.I. ;  Aug.  17. 
A  U.S.  Navy  veteran  ofWorld  War  II,  he  was  a 
sales  manager  for  Acushnet  Processing  Co.  in 
New  Bedford,  Mass.,  for  twenty  years  before 
retiring  in  1988.  He  is  survived  by  a  son  and 
three  daughters. 

J.  Robert  Annino  '54,  Captree  Island,  N.Y; 
Sept.  10,  1996.  He  was  an  attorney. 

Sandra  Solomon  Gerson  '56,Tarrytown, 
N.Y;  Aug.  3,  of  complications  from  lung  can- 
cer. A  former  associate  advertising  director 
and  hospital  services  social  worker,  she  most 
recently  was  involved  in  market  research  for 
the  consumer  electronics  industry.  She  worked 
for  TWICE  (Tliis  Week  in  Consumer  Electron- 
ics), a  trade  publication  edited  by  her  husband, 
Robert.  She  is  survived  by  her  husband,  36 
Birch  Way, Tarrytown  10591 ;  and  a  son. 

Edward  Artinian  '57,  Chatham,  N.J.;  Sept.  7. 
The  founder  and  owner  ot  the  college  text- 
book firm  Chatham  House  Publishers  Inc.,  he 
was  also  a  well-known  publisher  in  the  field 
of  political  science.  He  had  been  an  editor  for 
Dodd  Mead  and  David  McKay  publishers  in 
New  York  City  and  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Political  Science  Association.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Patricia,  5  Highland  Ave., 
Chatham  07928. 

Samuel  J.  Kozak  '58  Sc.M.,  Lexington, Va.; 
July  2.  He  was  a  geology  professor  at  Washing- 
ton and  Lee  University.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Julia,  P.O.  Box  1230,  Lexington  24450. 

Ann  Beale  '60,  Lemoyne,  Pa.;  Aug.  13.  A 
freelance  editor  and  writer,  she  was  managing 
editor  of  British  Heritage  magazine  in  the 
1980s.  She  is  survived  by  her  companion,  Matt 
Kuhn,  225  Hummel  Ave.,  Lemoyne  17043. 


Thomas  M.  Maines  '49,  Richmond,  R. I.; 
Sept.  16.  A  U.S.  Army  veteran  ofWorld  War  II, 
he  was  a  music  instructor  at  South  Kingstown 
(R.I.)  High  School.  He  is  survived  by  a  sister 
and  a  brother. 

Eugene  P.  Meekly  '49.  Fletcher,  N.C.;June 
20,  of  cancer.  A  sergeant  in  a  MASH  unit  dur- 
ing the  Korean  War.  he  was  .1  retired  librarian 
and  technical  information  officer  for  Koppers 
Co.  in  Pittsburgh.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
15  Westfield  Rd..  Fletcher  28732. 


Wilbert  O.Jacob  Jr.  '50,  Stratford,  Conn.; 
Feb.  14.  1996.  He  was  head  proofreader  at 
Alphabet  Soup  Inc.  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  After 
retiring  in  1991,  he  served  as  co-chair  of  the 
Federal  Labor-Management  Collaboration 
Program  in  Bridgeport  and  as  a  member  of 
the  Stratford  Waterfront  and  Harbor  Manage- 
ment Commission.  He  is  survived  by  a  daugh- 
ter, Barbara,  157  RyegatcTer.,  Stratford  06497. 

Richard  P.  Clark    si ,  I  )oylestown.  Pa.;  Aug. 
1 1.  A  Naval  veteran  ofWorld  War  II.  he  worked 


Marvin  M.  Crutchfield  '60  Ph.D.,  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  Nov.  22,  1996.  A  chemist  for  more  than 
thirty  years,  he  retired  in  1991  from  Monsanto 
Industrial  Chemical  Co.,  where  he  was  a 
senior  research  fellow  in  the  inorganic  chemi- 
cal division.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Dorothy,  1529  Cerulean  Dr.,  St.  Louis  63146; 
and  two  sons. 

Juan  G.  Rodriguez  '74,  Eagle  Pass, Tex.:  [an. 
12,  1992.  Survivors  include  his  mother, 
Clementina,  2S5  Trinity.  Eagle  Pass  78S52.  0^> 


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IN  ALLY. 


BY    [OCELYN   HALE   '  8  5 


I  finally  got  caller  ID,  the  nifty  tele- 
phone feature  that  tells  you  who  is 
calling  and  from  what  number.  Right 
away  I  pledged  to  refrain  from  picking  up 
the  phone  and  saying  "Hi,  Dad!"  when 
my  father  calls.  This  widespread  practice 
invariably  startles  the  caller  and  begins 
conversations  on  an  awkward  note. 
Besides,  my  husband  and  I  made  a  pact  to 
keep  our  caller  ID  secret,  so  our  family 
won't  know  we're  screening  their  calls. 

The  reason  we  decided  to  get  caller 
11)  was  simple:  we  wanted  to  avoid  tele- 
marketers during  the  dinner  hour.  The 
appeal  is  something  like  that  of  having  an 
ultrasound  test  to  find  out  the  sex  of  your 
baby.  I  like  to  be  prepared.  I  had  no 
inkling,  however,  that  getting  caller  ID 
would  bring  me  t'.\ce  to  face  with  so 
many  ethical  and  practical  dilemmas. 

Often  we  get  calls  for  Gamblers 
Anonymous,  whose  number  is  one  digit 
off  from  ours.  The  other  night,  when  one 
of  these  callers  misdialed  and  reached  us. 
her  name  showed  on  our  machine.  After 
"Jan"  hung  up,  it  occurred  to  me  that  I 
could  call  her  back  and  give  her  the  right 
number  for  Gamblers  Anonymous.  As  I 

vi.  ill. ued  between  my  desire  to  help  and 


Wrong  Number 


my  squeannshness  about  invading  Jan's 
privacy,  she  misdialed  again,  and  1  was 
able  to  set  her  straight  without  intruding, 
lint  I  felt  terrible.  Here  was  this  poor 
woman  seeking  anonymous  help,  yet  I 
immediately  had  learned  her  name  and 
number.  What  it  1  actually  knew  her? 

The  next  dilemma  presented  by  caller 
ID  involved  an  elusive  repairman.  The 
computer  I'd  just  bought  had  arrived  bro- 
ken. The  company  promised  to  dispatch  a 
technician.  Over  the  course  of  the  next 
several  days,  the  repair  guy  left  messages 
on  our  answering  machine:  "This  is  Steve 
from  your  computer  company.  Sorry  I 
missed  you;  I'll  call  back."  He  never  left  a 
number  where  I  could  reach  him,  and 
since  he  was  calling  from  his  cell  phone, 
no  number  showed  on  caller  ID.  I  became 
chained  to  the  house  in  my  desperation 
to  get  the  computer  fixed. 

Finally  Steve  gave  himself  away.  He 
called  late  one  afternoon  from  his  home 
phone,  leaving  no  return  number.  But  his 
name  and  number  showed  up  on  callei 
II). so  I  phoned  him  at  home. Steve  wasn't 
pleased  that  I'd  found  him.  but  he  came 
to  our  house  at  8:30  the  next  morning 
and  repaired  the  computer. 


No  sooner  had  I  resolved  the  com- 
puter crisis  than  we  got  a  wrong-number 
call  with  a  twist.  It  was  the  sort  of  call  that 
wouldn't  have  given  me  pause  in  the  days 
before  caller  ID.  A  man  asked  for  Larry 
Johnson.  "Wrong  number,"  I  responded, 
and  hung  up.  End  of  story.  But  then  I 
noticed  that  our  caller  ID  was  saying  the 
call  was  from  Larry  Johnson.  Why  would 
Larry  Johnson  telephone  and  ask  for  him- 
self? Was  he  a  crank  caller?  My  sister 
finally  came  up  with  a  plausible  explana- 
tion: a  workman  at  Larry  Johnson's  house 
was  trying  to  reach  him  at  his  office.  For 
all  I  know,  Larry  may  work  at  Gamblers 
Anonymous. 

Caller  ID,  I  imagine,  has  taken  some  of 
the  ease  out  of  dating.  Back  in  the  days 
when  I  was  single  and  there  was  no  caller 
ID,  I  sometimes  used  my  phone  to 
research  potential  dates.  For  instance,  it  I 
met  an  appealing  man,  I  might  look  up 
his  number  and  call  his  machine  to  see 
whether  the  message  said  "I'm  not  home" 
or  "We're  not  home."  With  caller  ID,  I 
would  have  had  to  go  undercover  —  slink- 
ing around  to  use  a  cell  phone,  a  pay 
phone,  or  a  blocked  number.  It  might 
have  been  more  exciting,  but  it  certainly 
would  have  been  inconvenient. 

A  friend  just  bought  an  advanced  fea- 
ture that  allows  you  to  program  in  the 
names  ot  your  most  frequent  callers. 
When  the  phone  rings,  an  automated 
voice  tells  you  who's  calling.  Say  it's  your 
mom;  the  ID  box  intones  "MOM."  I 
worry  that  the  next  generation  of  soft- 
ware will  develop  opinions  and  start  to 
nag:  "It's  MOM  calling;  you  should  really 
take  her  call  this  time."  Instant  guilt. 

Have  we  lost  something  with  all  this 
advance  warning?  lust  as  an  ultrasound 
takes  away  that  sweet  moment  in  the 
delivery  room  when  the  obstetrician 
announces  "It's  a  boy,"  caller  ID  steals  the 
surprise  of  being  greeted  by  an  old  friend 
on  the  line.  Soon  everyone  will  wise  up 
and  start  blocking  their  numbers,  and  all 
phone  communication  will  be  impossible. 
It's  only  a  matter  of  time  before  we  resort 
to  jotting  messages  on  pretty  sheets  of 
notepaper  and  popping  them  111  the  mail. 

Jocelyn  Hale  oj  Minneapolis  is  monitoring  calls 
from  home  with  the  kids. 


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Right  now,  your  Dad 

needs  a  helping  hand. 

But  first  we'd  like  to  offer 

you  a  sympathetic  ear. 

You're  doing  everything  possible  to  meet 
Dad's  needs.  But  it's  hard  finding  enough 
hours  in  the  day.  Your  concerns  and 
questions  keep  growing. 

At  a  time  like  this,  you  could  use  a  good 
listener. 

Listening  is  one  of  the  things  we  do  best 
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preferences  .  .  .  and  offer  just  the  right  level 
of  care  and  assistance  to  help  maintain  his 
independence. 

And  it's  how  we  come  to  know  the  social 
and  recreational  activities  he'll  enjoy  most 
in  our  gracious,  residential  setting. 

The  more  you  talk,  the  better  you'll  feel 
about  Dad's  options  for  today  .  .  .  and  the 
future.  So  call  us.  We're  ready  to  listen. 
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